Definition of Camply

1. in an effeminate manner [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Camply

camping
camping area
camping bus
camping chair
camping ground
camping site
campings
campion
campions
cample
campled
camples
camplike
campling
camply (current term)
campmate
campmates
campness
campo
campodeiform
campong
campongs
camporee
camporees
campos
campout
campouts
camps
campshirt

Literary usage of Camply

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to 1830 by John Genest (1832)
"... and Eliza camply are mutually in love—they have had a slight quarrel, ... paid his addresses to Miss Loveless—Miss camply assumes the dress of a man, ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1885)
"... accepting an engagement at Drury Lane, made his first appearance there in December 1707 as Colonel camply in Ken- rick's comedy of the ' Widowed AY ite? ..."

3. "Their Majesties' Servants.": Annals of the English Stage, from Thomas by Doran (John), Richard Henry Stoddard (1890)
"... 1780, with the " Winter's Tale," and her own farce, the " Miniature Picture," on which occasion, she played Perdita and Eliza camply. ..."

4. A Greek and English Dictionary, Comprising All the Words in the Writings of by John Groves (1830)
"... to pursue, trace, investigate, examine, search ; to attend, wait upon; to witness, support, V corroborate,! to conform to, camply with. ..."

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