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Definition: Campy |
CampyAdjective1. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: CampySynonym: camp (adj). (additional references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | ||
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Books | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
campy | 38 |
campy only | 13 |
campy movie | 2 |
campy record | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "campy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | kitschisch. (various references) | |
Hungarian | meleg (cream-puff, fag, faggot, mellow, poovey, poovy, thermal, to be warm, warm, warmth), homoszexuális (camp, gay, homosexual, invert, pansy, pederast, poovey, poovy), buzis (camp, poncy, poofy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ampycay.(various references) | |
Turkish | yapmacık (affected, artificial, chichi, constrained, counterfeit, factitious, false, feigned, genteel, plummy, pretended, put on, rose water, set, shifty, sophisticated, studied, studious, theatrical, unnatural), adi (abject, base, camp, cheap jack, chintzy, coarse, coarse grained, common, common as dirt, commonplace, contemptible, dastardly, despicable, everyday, groveling, grovelling, gutter, hackneyed, jerkwater, little, low, low class, mean, measly, no class, one horse, ordinary, ornery, picayune, picayunish, poky, rubbishy, shoddy, slavish, sleazy, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, vile, vulgar, wormy, yellow dog). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "campy": campylobacter, campylobacters, campylotropous. (additional references) | |
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"Campy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acmnpv, Ampey, Ampy, camay, Camby, Cammy, camopy, campe, campi, camry, camy, Capie, Capmd, Cemp, Ckamp, cmkyr, compi, Compy, crampy, mampy, vampy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "campy" (pronounced ka"mpē) |
| 5 | k a" m p ē | Campi. |
| 3 | -m p ē | bumpy, clumpy, dumpy, frumpy, grumpy, jumpy, lumpy, skimpy, swampy, wimpy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-m-p-y" | |
-1 letter: camp, cyma. | |
-2 letters: amp, cam, cap, cay, mac, map, may, pac, pam, pay, pya, yam, yap. | |
-3 letters: am, ay, ma, my, pa, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-m-p-y" | |
+1 letter: champy. | |
+2 letters: campily, company, primacy, pyaemic. | |
+3 letters: pharmacy, rampancy, tympanic. | |
+4 letters: accompany, amblyopic, champerty, compactly, copayment, cryptogam, cymophane, cytoplasm, diplomacy, hypomanic, lymphatic, mycophagy, myopathic, pachyderm, polygamic, pyromancy, supremacy, sympatric. | |
+5 letters: asymptotic, companying, comparably, compatibly, compliancy, complicacy, copayments, cryptogams, cryptogram, cymophanes, cytoplasms, hermatypic, hypermanic, impeccably, implacably, importancy, lymphatics, macrophyte, metaphysic, micropylar, mycoplasma, myopically, pachyderms, parenchyma, patronymic, permanency, polyatomic, polymathic, pyromaniac, tympanitic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6D 70 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- -- .--. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101101 01110000 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a m p y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006D 0070 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767798291 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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