EXHIBIT, EXHIBITION, EXHIBITIONISM, EXHIBITIONIST
NOUNS
► BURN an exhibition, a display → 2002 US sl.
► CAMP flamboyance, overt exhibitionism; hence, a flamboyant person of either sex → 1920s sl.
► CAMPING flamboyance, overt exhibitionism → 1920s sl.
► DANGLE a nickname for an act of male exhibitionism → 20C US sl.
► GAFF a show, an exhibition → 19C sl.
► HAZE-GAZE a show in the sense of an exhibition of oneself; a wonder → 1818 Eng. dial.
► MUD SHOW an exhibition, carnival, performance, etc. held in the open air → 1909 sl.
► MUSTER a showing something; exhibition, display → 1400 obs.
► MUSTERING a showing; an exhibition; an outward display → 1439 obs.
► POPPY SHOW a puppet show; a peep show; hence, a childish or ridiculous exhibition → 1860 Amer. dial.
► SPRANK a display, an exhibition; an ostentatious show → 1568 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► DANGLER an exhibitionist of the penis; a flasher → 1927 US sl.
► MEAT-FLASHER an exhibitionist; a man who exposes his penis to public view → 19C Brit. sl.
► MONSTRATOR a demonstrator; an exhibitor → 1852 obs.
► POPPY SHOW one who makes a stupid exhibition of themselves → 20C W. Indies sl.
► WANDA WANDWAVER an exhibitionist → 1960s homosexual sl.
► WEENIE WAGGER a male sexual exhibitionist → 1970 US sl.
► WEENIE WAVER a male sexual exhibitionist → 1970 US sl.
VERBS
► ADVERTISE to show off, to act in an exhibitionist manner, and thus draw un-needed attraction to oneself → 1930s sl., orig. US
► BARNUMIZE to exhibit with a lavish display of puffing advertisements → 1851
► EXTRINSICATE to exhibit outwardly; to express → 1645
► MUSTER to show; to display, to exhibit; to report, to tell, to explain → 1400 obs.
► NAIL TO THE BARN-DOOR to exhibit after the manner of dead vermin → 1894
► VENDITATE to set out as if for sale; to put forward or display in a favourable light or in a specious manner; to exhibit ostentatiously → 1600 obs.