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campery

noun

Etymology

From camp + -ery.

  1. inherited from *kampōn✻
  2. inherited from campian, compian
  3. inherited from campen
  4. derived from camp
  5. derived from can, camp
  6. derived from *kh₂em-✻ — “to bend; crooked”
  7. derived from campus
  8. inherited from *kamp✻
  9. inherited from camp
  10. inherited from kampe
  11. suffixed as campery — “camp + ery”

Definitions

  1. Ostentatiously effeminate behaviour from a man.

    • But she made no secret of her disappointment at our lack of campery.

  2. A display of camp (affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style).

    • Justin Welby said in an interview with Huw Edwards that “the biggest challenge was that the whole ceremony didn’t look like Gilbert and Sullivan”. It is fair to say that this coronation steered well clear of the campery of comic opera.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for campery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA