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uncamp

verb

Etymology

From un- (not) + camp (“effeminate”).

  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. formed as uncamp — “un- + camp”

Definitions

  1. To break up the camp of

    To break up the camp of; to dislodge from camp.

    • If they could but now uncamp their enemies […]

  2. To pack up, and leave a camp

  3. Not camp.

    • As I write, big changes are in the offing for this long-established, uncamp, uncomplicated gay local.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for uncamp. 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