camperyn.
/ˈkamp(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈkæmpəri/ Camp behaviour or performance; camp style or manner.
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1959 Films & Filming June 23/3 It's when Daphne falls for millionaire playboy Osgood..and, when he proposes, decides ‘she’ prefers to remain a girl that the campery reaches its climax, if that is not too indelicate an expression, for so fey a confection.
1976 Age (Melbourne) 29 Oct. 2/3 The Rocky Horror Show..communicates readily with its young audiences who revel in its grotesquerie, its display of sheer bad taste and campery, and the ear-shattering heavy rock accompaniment.
1980 Times 27 June 11/5 The plot is riddled with the campery and the bitchery of cliché queendom.
2000 L. Senelik Changing Room xvi. 410 Salome, the locus classicus of the decadent femme fatale, has also been a fruitful source of campery.
2014 @franburrows 10 May in twitter.com (accessed 24 June 2019) Where's the glitter, dodgy costume and general campery? #hungary #eurovision.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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