vamper

English

Etymology 1

vamp +‎ -er

Noun

vamper (plural vampers)

  1. One who vamps; one who creates or repairs by piecing old things together; a cobbler.
    • 1833, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs, Charles Knight, London, page 98:
      Cibber, a vamper of other men’s plays, has borrowed from it his favourite Nonjuror, and applied it to the purposes of a political party.

Etymology 2

Compare vaunt.

Verb

vamper (third-person singular simple present vampers, present participle vampering, simple past and past participle vampered)

  1. (Britain, Scotland, dialectal) To swagger; to make an ostentatious show.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

Anagrams

French

Verb

vamper

  1. to vamp (seduce)

Conjugation
Conjugation of vamper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle vampant
/vɑ̃.pɑ̃/
past participle vampé
/vɑ̃.pe/
infinitive
simple vamper
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple vampant
/vɑ̃.pɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present vampe
/vɑ̃p/		 vampes
/vɑ̃p/		 vampe
/vɑ̃p/		 vampons
/vɑ̃.pɔ̃/		 vampez
/vɑ̃.pe/		 vampent
/vɑ̃p/
imperfect vampais
/vɑ̃.pɛ/		 vampais
/vɑ̃.pɛ/		 vampait
/vɑ̃.pɛ/		 vampions
/vɑ̃.pjɔ̃/		 vampiez
/vɑ̃.pje/		 vampaient
/vɑ̃.pɛ/
past historic2 vampai
/vɑ̃.pe/		 vampas
/vɑ̃.pa/		 vampa
/vɑ̃.pa/		 vampâmes
/vɑ̃.pam/		 vampâtes
/vɑ̃.pat/		 vampèrent
/vɑ̃.pɛʁ/
future vamperai
/vɑ̃.pʁe/		 vamperas
/vɑ̃.pʁa/		 vampera
/vɑ̃.pʁa/		 vamperons
/vɑ̃.pʁɔ̃/		 vamperez
/vɑ̃.pʁe/		 vamperont
/vɑ̃.pʁɔ̃/
conditional vamperais
/vɑ̃.pʁɛ/		 vamperais
/vɑ̃.pʁɛ/		 vamperait
/vɑ̃.pʁɛ/		 vamperions
/vɑ̃.pə.ʁjɔ̃/		 vamperiez
/vɑ̃.pə.ʁje/		 vamperaient
/vɑ̃.pʁɛ/
(compound
tenses)		 present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses)		 present vampe
/vɑ̃p/		 vampes
/vɑ̃p/		 vampe
/vɑ̃p/		 vampions
/vɑ̃.pjɔ̃/		 vampiez
/vɑ̃.pje/		 vampent
/vɑ̃p/
imperfect2 vampasse
/vɑ̃.pas/		 vampasses
/vɑ̃.pas/		 vampât
/vɑ̃.pa/		 vampassions
/vɑ̃.pa.sjɔ̃/		 vampassiez
/vɑ̃.pa.sje/		 vampassent
/vɑ̃.pas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — vampe
/vɑ̃p/		 — vampons
/vɑ̃.pɔ̃/		 vampez
/vɑ̃.pe/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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