vamper

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvæmpə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -æmpə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

English vamp

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

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Latin -ārius

Old French -ierbor.

Middle English -er

English -er

English vamper

From 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. (UK, Scotland, dialect) To swagger; to make an ostentatious show.
   • 1764, Charles Churchill, The Times:

     The temple of thy body, look with scorn,
     Why doth that vamper'd glution eat no more

Anagrams

• revamp

French

Etymology

From vamp +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɑ̃.pe/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Verb

vamper

1. to vamp (seduce)

Conjugation

Conjugation of vamper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vamper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vampant /vɑ̃.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vampé /vɑ̃.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	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 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “vamper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012