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Definition of Campy
1. Adjective. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities. "Campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"
Definition of Campy
1. Adjective. Characterized by camp or kitsch, especially when deliberate or intentional. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Campy
1. comically exaggerated [adj CAMPIER, CAMPIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Campy
Literary usage of Campy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lettres de Gui Patin by Guy Patin (1846)
"La femme de campy a premièrement été pendue ; les deux massacreurs, savoir, ...
campy cria rudement à tous les onze et ne fut point étranglé : aussi ne ..."
2. Summer in the Girls' Camp by Anna Worthington Coale (1919)
"THE campy THING TO DO "What is that bugle blowing for?" asked the little city maid.
"That's the campy way to welcome you," the veteran camper said. ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"Originally the same with campy, sense 1, qv Ihre observes, that as all the
excellence of our ... Spirited ; as, " a campy fellow," Roxb. To campy, adj. 1. ..."
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