Campery

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Ostentatiously effeminate behaviour from a man. uncountable

    "But she made no secret of her disappointment at our lack of campery."

  2. 2
    A display of camp (affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style). uncountable

    "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."

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"But she made no secret of her disappointment at our lack of campery."

Etymology

From camp + -ery.

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