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camp
adjective- ostentatious, effeminate, affected; usually applied to behaviour or style UK, 1909
Possibly French in origin; however it may well be an ironic reversal of “unkempt” (ungroomed) or, less likely, derive from the acronym KAMP: “known as male prostitute.” - — Paul Baker, Polari, p. 168, 2002
- homosexual AUSTRALIA, 1941
In Australia not necessarily flagrantly effeminate. - When one comes across a camp cop or taxi driver or ditch-digger one doesn’t immediately label all and sundry in that profession as queer. — Sue Rhodes, Now you’ll think I’m awful, p. 109, 1967
- Crapped off with one-night stands, shat off with shallowness, quiet camp guy, twenty-five, would like to meet couple under thirty willing to dally discreetly during daytime. — Alvin Purple, p. 96, 1974
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 51, 1977
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