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In his 1972 book Gay Talk, writer Bruce Rodgers traces the term camp to 16th century British theatre, where it referred to men dressed as women (). [5] [23] Camp may have derived from the gay slang Polari, [24] which borrowed the term from the Italian campare, [25] [21] or from the French term se camper, meaning "to pose in an exaggerated fashion".
Campy most commonly refers to Camp (style). It is also a nickname for: People: Bert Campaneris (born 1942), American retired Major League Baseball player; Roy Campanella (1921–1993), American Hall-of-Fame Major League Baseball catcher; Campy Russell (born 1952), American retired National Basketball Association player
Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. Originally, Urban Dictionary was intended as a dictionary of slang or cultural words and phrases, not typically found in standard English dictionaries, but it is now used to define any word, event, or phrase (including sexually explicit content).
Swish is a US English slang term for effeminate behavior and interests [1] [2] (), emphasized and sanctioned in gay male communities prior to the Stonewall riots. [3] [4] [5] This behaviour is also described as being nelly in British English, [6] and both terms are often considered to be derogatory.
According to a May 2021 article on youth news website The Tab, "some people have suggested" that the trend betrayed an underlying misogyny. [3] An article on CNET said that whether the word cheugy was sexist was "a good question", since girl bosses were female; contrariwise, the article noted that cargo shorts and Axe Body Spray were "cheugy stuff you might associate more with men."
Another definition, although much less common, would be "best sister friend"—AKA a friend close enough to be a sister. As one user explains on Urban Dictionary , a BSF is "a best friend who is ...
The authors are confused because EVERYBODY is confused, since the word has no actual agreed upon definition. There are dictionary definitions, but what people mean by the word is all over the place (as it is with "corny," cheesy," and "kitsch," although "kitsch" HAS a specific definition that was agreed upon by art critics long ago, but has ...
The punchline is a pun inspired by her name: “Bet he white.” Chris Rock's joke linking mass shootings to white people riled up some critics. (Photo: Earl Gibson III/Getty Images for NAACP)