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[kam-pee]

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adjective, camp·i·er, camp·i·est.

of, pertaining to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.

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Origin:
1955–60; camp² + -y¹

Related forms

camp·i·ly, adverb

camp·i·ness, noun

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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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The show is a curious blend of campy entertainment and dead-serious cooking.

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campy (ˈkæmpɪ)

—*adj* , campier, campiest
1.	effeminate; affected in mannerisms, dress, etc
2.	relating to or considered characteristic of homosexuals
3.	consciously artificial, exaggerated, vulgar, or mannered; self-parodying, esp when in dubious taste

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camp definition

n.
something cute and out of fashion; something of such an anachronistic style as to be intriguing. : Nobody really knows what style camp really is, and very few even care.
mod.
and campy. overdone; out of fashion and intriguing. : Most camp entertainment is pretentious and overdrawn.
mod.
having to do with homosexual persons and matters. : She is so camp, I could scream!

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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"In short, camp mocks bad taste; kitsch exploits it. Camp arouses our sense of the ridiculous and we respond with amused tolerance. When we see Bette Davis or Ruth Gordon, fine if sometimes flamboyant performers, relax their self-discipline and overextend their acting technique in a superfluity of ineffective gestures—finger-twitching and hip-switching, hand-rubbing or hip-protruding—we label the sum total as camp. Mae West, whose nasally provocative delivery, eye-rolling, lip-pursing, and pelvic tics parody the conventional invitation to dalliance, is never out of control and is camp, pure and simple.... Camp was also the stock-in-trade of Carmen Miranda, whose retina-searing Technicolor get-ups, skyscraper headdresses bearing a season's fruit harvest, clomping platform shoes and garbled English projected in a voice that could be heard on Mars all came together beautifully in her campy personification of Exaggeration. Had we been blessed with the Brazilian Bombshell's own blazing interpretation of Joan of Arc, the grotesque, if fascinating, result would surely have been kitsch."

-Curtis F. Brown

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