camp2

 
Pronunciation: /kamp/
informal

adjective

  • (of a man or his manner) ostentatiously and extravagantly effeminate: a heavily made-up and highly camp actor
  • deliberately exaggerated and theatrical in style: the movie seems more camp than shocking or gruesome

noun

[mass noun]
  • deliberately exaggerated and theatrical behaviour or style: Hollywood camp

verb

[no object]
  • (of a man) behave in an ostentatiously effeminate way: he camped it up a bit for the cameras

Derivatives

campery

noun

campness

noun

Origin:

early 20th century: of unknown origin