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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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gamp
English
Etymology
After Mrs Sarah Gamp, a character who carried a large umbrella in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?amp/
- Rhymes: -æmp
Noun
gamp (plural gamps)
- (Britain, dated) An umbrella.
- 1900, A. W. Pullin, Talks with old English cricketers (page 169)
- It was the last day of the match, and owing to rain it was really unfit to play, but the promoters insisted upon our doing so, to satisfy the spectators, who stood round the ground with their umbrellas up. […] One gentleman sat with his gamp up on some rails near the railway.
- 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1111:
- In his hand he waved – an appropriate symbol of disapprobation – his London gamp meticulously rolled.
- 1900, A. W. Pullin, Talks with old English cricketers (page 169)
Anagrams
- AGMP
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Related to Norwegian Nynorsk gimpe (“twist the upper body”)
Noun
gamp m (definite singular gampen, indefinite plural gamper, definite plural gampene)
- (work) horse
- old horse, nag
- 2017, "Sangen om den siste drage - bok 4" by Anne Olga Vea, Lulu.com ?ISBN [1]
- 2017, "Sangen om den siste drage - bok 4" by Anne Olga Vea, Lulu.com ?ISBN [1]
References
- “gamp” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “gamp” in The Ordnett Dictionary
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Related to gimpe (“twist the upper body”)
Noun
gamp m (definite singular gampen, indefinite plural gampar, definite plural gampane)
- (work) horse
- old horse, nag
References
- “gamp” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Welsh
Noun
gamp
- Soft mutation of camp.
Mutation
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