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campery en · NOUN

Etymology

From camp + -ery.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Ostentatiously effeminate behaviour from a man.
    • But she made no secret of her disappointment at our lack of campery. 2009 July 19, Mark Gevisser, “South African Rites”, in New York Times:
  2. (uncountable) 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. 2023 May 7, Michael Billington, “The Coronation review – immaculately rehearsed, touching and Shakespearean”, in The Guardian, →ISSN: