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Campy vs Scampy - What's the difference?

campy | scampy |

As adjectives the difference between campy and scampy

is that campy is characterized by camp or kitsch, especially when deliberate or intentional while scampy is scampish.

campy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Characterized by camp or kitsch, especially when deliberate or intentional.
    • Stu liked to watch campy B-movie horror flicks from the 1950s, not because they scared him, but because he found them funny.

    Synonyms

    *(characterized by camp or kitsch ): camp, corny, hammy, silly, tawdry, vulgar

    scampy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • scampish
  • * {{quote-news, year=1991, date=December 20, author=Toni Schlesinger, title=Heart Beat, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=The woman had collected a lot of stray dogs and I was petting the dogs and all of a sudden I looked at one--he was kind of scampy with a know-it-all look on his face--and I saw he was holding my diaphragm in his mouth. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=September 30, author=Henry Sheehan, title=The White Woman's Burden, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Thanks to his association with Fossey, Sembagare rises in life from scampy village tour guide to responsible adjutant. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1901, author=Miles Franklin, title=My Brilliant Career, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Very often, after they sow their wild oats, some of those scampy young fellows settle down and marry a nice young girl and turn out very good husbands." }}