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coquette
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French coquette.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /k??k?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /ko??k?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
coquette (plural coquettes)
- A woman who flirts or plays with men's affections.
- Any hummingbird in the genus Lophornis
Related terms
Translations
Verb
coquette (third-person singular simple present coquettes, present participle coquetting, simple past and past participle coquetted)
- Alternative form of coquet
French
Etymology
From coquet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?.k?t/
Adjective
coquette
- feminine singular of coquet
Noun
coquette f (plural coquettes)
- flirt, tease
Descendants
Further reading
- “coquette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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vamp
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /væmp/
- Rhymes: -æmp
Etymology 1
From Middle English vaumpe, vaum-pei, vampe (“covering for the foot, perhaps a slipper or understocking; upper of a boot or shoe”), or from Anglo-Norman vampe, *vaumpé (“part of a stocking covering the top of the foot”), from Old French avantpied, avantpiet, variants of avantpié, from avant (“in front”) + pié (“foot”).
Noun senses 2 and 3 (“a patch; something patched up or improvised”) appear to have been extended from sense 1 (“top part of a boot or shoe”). Sense 4 (“repeated and often improvised musical accompaniment”) was probably derived from sense 3, and sense 5 (“activity to fill or stall for time”) from sense 4.
The verb senses were derived from the noun. Compare also Middle English vaum-peien (“(uncertain) to repair (footwear) with a new upper or vamp; to fabricate an upper or vamp”).
Noun
vamp (plural vamps)
- The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking. [from c. 1225]
- Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.
- Synonym: patch
- Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
- (music) A repeated and often improvised accompaniment, usually consisting of one or two measures, often a single chord or simple chord progression, repeated as necessary, for example, to accommodate dialogue or to anticipate the entrance of a soloist. [from c. 1789]
- (by extension) An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.
Translations
Verb
vamp (third-person singular simple present vamps, present participle vamping, simple past and past participle vamped)
- (transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish.
- (transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
- 1711, Jonathan Swift, An Excellent New Song
- He has vamp'd an old speech, and the court to their sorrow, / Shall hear him harangue against Prior to morrow.
- 1711, Jonathan Swift, An Excellent New Song
- (transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
- (transitive, intransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
- (transitive, intransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
- (transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
- (transitive, intransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk.
- (intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
Derived terms
- new-vamp, revamp
- vamp up
- vamper
Etymology 2
Clipping of vampire. From a character type developed first for silent film, notably for Theda Bara's role in the 1915 film A Fool There Was.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Noun
vamp (plural vamps)
- A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her. [from c. 1915]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vamp
- (informal) A vampire.
Derived terms
- vampish
Translations
Verb
vamp (third-person singular simple present vamps, present participle vamping, simple past and past participle vamped)
- (transitive) To seduce or exploit someone.
Translations
Etymology 3
Origin uncertain; possibly related to vamp (etymology 1, above): see the 2008 quotation.
Noun
vamp (plural vamps)
- (US, slang) A volunteer firefighter.
Translations
References
Further reading
- vamp (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English vamp.
Noun
vamp f (invariable)
- vamp (flirtatious woman)
Spanish
Noun
vamp m or f (plural vamps)
- vamp
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