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CAMPY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does campy mean?
• CAMPY (adjective)
The adjective CAMPY has 1 sense:
1. providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities
Familiarity information: CAMPY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities
Synonyms:
camp; campy
Context example:
campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's
Similar:
tasteless (lacking aesthetic or social taste)
Derivation:
camp (something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality)
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