Meanings (ES + gloss)
amanerado • con pluma • maricona • maricón
Ostentatiously flamboyant or effeminate.
And to be honest, in the illustration Mr Tumnus does look as camp as fuck with his little scarf tied jauntily around his neck. I suppose it isn't outside the realms of possibility…
More recently the word has become colloquial English for either implying that someone is a homosexual (‘he's very camp’), or for describing rather outre behaviour[…]
hortera
Intentionally tasteless or vulgar; self-parodying.
Here is Eurovision from a time before anyone watched it for camp value – you can’t imagine any gay bar in 1974 clearing its schedules to screen this; a Eurovision that takes itself…
In Saturday Night Live, Madonna also unsurprisingly played Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, and a Joan Collins clone, all in a very camp way. As John Dean writes: “U.S. rock has a r…
Meanings (ES + gloss)
campamento
An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
Near-synonyms: campsite, campground, encampment
There's a big camp in the woods northwest of here. It's popular with hikers and bushcrafters.
acampada • campamento
An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
He used to go to summer camp every alternate year.
I met my best friend last summer at camp. She lives in Albany and plays the clarinet.
almahala (disused) • almofalla (disused) • bando • campamento militar • facción
A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
Near-synonym: encampment
Signs of enemy recon were found near their camp last week.
Phrases
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Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
camp • kitsch
An affected, exaggerated, or intentionally tasteless style.
Near-synonyms: campness, campiness
We walk a fine line, just this side of camp. Careful calculations are made. We sense that while it might be wonderful for Krystle and Alexis to have a catfight in a koi pond, it wo…
Phrases
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Word forms
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
acampar
To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
A few hours before sundown we camped at a small playa lake sunk beneath the level of the grass.
We're planning to camp in the field until Sunday.
atendar
To set up a camp.
campear
To stay in an advantageous location.
Some players like to camp next to a power-up's spawning point.
Yet, even without the three second rule, where your big man could camp underneath and take those delightful “garbage” shots, there was little or no pivot offense, no cutting off th…