gamy vs naughty what difference

what is difference between gamy and naughty

English

Adjective

gamy (comparative more gamy, superlative most gamy)

1. Alternative spelling of gamey

   • Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad, is the Ocean.

English

Etymology

From Middle English naughty, nauȝty, nauȝti, naȝti, equivalent to naught +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔːti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔti/, /ˈnɑti/
• Homophone: knotty (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -ɔːti

Adjective

naughty (comparative naughtier, superlative naughtiest)

1. Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child). [from 17th c.]

   Some naughty boys at school hid the teacher’s lesson notes.

2. Sexually provocative; now in weakened sense, risqué, cheeky. [from 19th c.]

   I bought some naughty lingerie for my honeymoon.

   If I see you send another naughty email to your friends, you will be forbidden from using the computer!

3. (now rare, archaic) Evil, wicked, morally reprehensible. [from 15th c.]
   • 1589, John Bucke, Instructions for the Use of the Beades

     my proneſſe to ſinne, and naughty appetites and desires, woulde drawe me headlong to the pitte of hell

   • c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act V scene i^[1]

     […] How far that little candle throws his beams! / So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica

     Wholesome meats to a vitiated stomack differ little or nothing from unwholesome; and best books to a naughty mind are not unappliable to occasions of evill.

4. (obsolete) Bad, worthless, substandard. [16th-19th c.]

Alternative forms

• noughty (archaic or obsolete)

Synonyms

• (immoral, sexually provocative): dirty
• (mischievous): mischievous

Antonyms

• (immoral; cheeky): nice

Derived terms

• naughtily
• naughtiness
• naughty bit

Translations

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