1. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered, banal or sentimental qualities
   "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's";
   - camp [informal]
    
2. Weal or having unsuitable feminine qualities
   "The actor's campy portrayal of the character was criticized as stereotypical";
   - effeminate, emasculate, epicene, cissy [Brit, informal], sissified [informal], sissyish [informal], sissy [informal], camp [informal]

Derived forms: campiest, campier

See also: poncey [Brit, informal], poncy [Brit, informal], tasteless, unmanful, unmanlike, unmanly

Encyclopedia: Campy