campy
Adjective Satellite
- providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities
- "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"
Adj
- Characterized by camp or kitsch, especially when deliberate or intentional.
Adjective
- Deliberately exaggerated or theatrical, often for humorous or ironic effect.
Examples
- His campy celebration after a bingo was almost as entertaining as the word itself.
- Stu liked to watch campy B-movie horror flicks from the 1950s, not because they scared him, but because he found them funny.
Origin / Etymology
From camp (“an affected or exaggerated style”) + -y.
Scrabble Score: 14
campy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcampy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
campy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 16
campy: valid Words With Friends Word