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▪ I. vamp, n.1|væmp|
Forms: 3 vaumpe, 3, 5 uaumpe, 5 vawmpe; 4–5 wampe, 5 vampe, 6 vamppe, 7– vamp.
[ad. AF. *vampé, *vanpé (Palsgrave uantpié), = OF. avanpié (12th c.; later F. avantpied), f. avan(t) before + pié foot. The final syllable is preserved in the variant vampey.]
1. That part of hose or stockings which covers the foot and ankle; also, a short stocking, a sock. Now dial.
a1225Ancr. R. 420 Ine sumer ȝe habbeð leaue uorto gon and sitten baruot, and hosen wiðuten uaumpez, and ligge ine ham hwoso likeð. 13..Seuyn Sages (W.) 843 He dede his schon of-drawe, And karf his vaumpes, fot-hot, And wente him forht al barfot. 1378–9Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 587 Pro..j pare botarum et Wampes de Dubelsols. c1425Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 654 Hec pedana, wampe. c1440Promp. Parv. 508/1 Vampe, of an hoose.., pedana. a1562G. Cavendish Wolsey (1893) 223 Allthoughe..that our predecessors went uppon clothe right somptiously, we do entend..to goo a foote frome thence, without any suche glory, in the vamppes of my hosyn. 1676Coles, Vamp, a sock. [1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Vamps or Vampays, an odd kind of short Hose or Stockings that cover'd the Feet, and came up only to the Ancle, just above the Shooe.] 1880in E. Cornw. Gloss.
2. The part of a boot or shoe covering the front of the foot; U.S., that part between the sole and the top in front of the ankle-seams.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. iv. 192 Her Grace when she had victuall'd that grand Camp, Gave me a piece of Cheese tuff as a vamp. 1688Holme Armoury iii. 14/1 Of a Shooe:..the Vamp, is all the piece that covers the top of the foot. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Vamp, the Upper Leather of a Shoe. 1770T. Hazard Son of Robt. (1893) 288 One pair of vamps for shoes. 1785J. Belknap in M. Cutler's Life, etc. (1888) II. 234 This bathing vessel..is in the form of a slipper. He sits in the Heel, and his legs go under the Vamp. 1800M. Edgeworth Parent's Assist. (1854) 347 The last-maker made a last for her, and over this Mary sewed the calico vamps tight. 1845Whittier Shoemakers ii, Now shape the sole! now deftly curl The glossy vamp around it. 1885Harper's Mag. Jan. 280/1 The upper is found to consist,..in the case of a button boot, of a ‘vamp’ to cover the front part of the foot [etc.].
▪ II. vamp, n.2|væmp|
[f. vamp v.1]
Anything vamped, patched up, or refurbished; a patchwork; a book of this nature.
1884J. F. Hodgetts Older England ii. 61 This name was no vamp or hybrid mixture of Latin and English. 1897Academy 6 Mar. 274/1 Such vamps as the one I have analysed from Mr. Henley's notes can only be credited to him as brilliant luck brilliantly used.
b. A vamped or improvised accompaniment.
1882in Imp. Dict. IV. 539.
▪ III. vamp, n.3 U.S. slang.|væmp|
[Origin unknown.]
A volunteer fireman.
1877Fireman's Jrnl. I. 15/1 Our old friend..seems to have the run of the old vamps. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §850/2 Vamp, a volunteer fire⁓man.
▪ IV. vamp, n.4|væmp|
[Abbrev. of vampire n.]
A woman who intentionally attracts and exploits men; an adventuress; a Jezebel; freq. as a stock character in plays and films.
a1911Chesterton Lunacy & Letters (1958) xxxvi. 178 Thackeray took it for granted that Mary Stuart was a vamp. 1918N.Y. Times 15 July 9 Enid Bennett In a New ‘Vamp’ Story... ‘The Vamp’..is a pleasing light comedy..in which Enid Bennett..appears as Nancy; an ingenuous wardroom girl at a musical comedy theatre where she hears sophisticated chorus girls tell how the female of the species may make the male buy her dinners and diamond bracelets by ‘vamping’ him... So Nancy, taking a tip from the chorus girls, ‘vamps’ him—and the wedding is a quick result. 1930G. B. Shaw Wks. VII. 156 Ask yourself whether, if the lot in life therein described were your lot in life, you would not rather be a jewelled Vamp. 1973Times 22 Dec. 9/2 Exotic red flowers like the lips of vamps. 1976H. R. F. Keating Filmi, Filmi, Inspector Ghote v. 44 She was..playing the Vamp in a film.
▪ V. vamp, v.1|væmp|
Also 8 vaump.
[f. vamp n.1]
I.
1. trans. To provide or furnish with a (new) vamp; to mend or repair with or as with patches; to furbish up, renovate, or restore. Also with up.
Some further developments in dial. use are illustrated in the Eng. Dial. Dict.
(a)1599[see vamping vbl. n.1]. 16..Middleton, etc. Old Law ii. i, What a time did we endure In twopenny commons, and in boots twice vamped! 1639Shirley Gentl. Venice iii. ii, Giovanni. In the mean time buy thee a sword and belt, And what is fit. (Gives him money). Georgio. No more: I'll be a soldier... This will Suffice to vamp my body. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, To Vamp, to new Dress, Licker, Refresh, or Rub up old Hatts, Boots, &c. 1844Alb. Smith Adv. Mr. Ledbury xiv. (1886) 42 Various new-footed boots..vamped and polished to the last pitch of ingenuity. 1860Emerson Conduct of Life ix. Wks. (Bohn) II. 446 Plod and plough, vamp your old coats and hats, weave a shoestring. 1884A. Griffiths Chron. Newgate I. i. 33 Blankets vamped in foreign parts with the hair of oxen.
(b)1755Johnson Connoisseur No. 77 ⁋1 The woman of the town, vamped up for shew with paint, patches, plumpers, and every external ornament that art can administer. 1796F. Burney Camilla V. 189 The apparel..would do well enough for herself, when vamped up, as she knew how. 1837Disraeli Venetia v. viii, Old furniture..re-burnished and vamped up. 1864C. Knight Passages Work. Life I. v. 219 Our old fabric..was in danger of falling,..although we had spent large sums in vamping it up. 1875Chambers' Jrnl. 30 Nov. 749 Old boots and shoes are sold to men who vamp them up in such a style that their former owners would not know them.
b. transf. and fig. (Freq. with reference to literary compositions.)
(a)1632Song in Lyly Sappho ii. iii. 109 To th' Tap-house then lets gang, and rore, Cal hard, tis rare to vamp a score. 1640Gataker Whitaker in Fuller Abel Rediv. (1867) II. 117 Let them strive to vamp Their wasted memories by another lamp. 1682N. O. Boileau's Lutrin i. 1 The Argument? what needs a Proëme, To vamp a Three-half⁓penny Poeme? 1706Swift Baucis & Phil. 128 He..Knew how to preach old sermons next, Vamp'd in the preface and the text. 1743Lond. & Co. Brewer iii. (ed. 2) 238 Vamping Malt-Liquors.—Is of late much in Practice for its excellent Service in recovering, preserving, and fining strong October and March Beers. 1795Burns Address, sp. by Miss Fontenelle 4 A Prologue, Epilogue, or some such matter, 'Twould vamp my bill, said I, if nothing better. 1800Crabbe Borough xvi. 185 When on each feature death had fix'd his stamp, And not a doctor could the body vamp. 1867Emerson May-Day Wks. (Bohn) III. 417 Chemist to vamp old worlds with new. 1883Daily News 8 Dec. 2/8, I meant to suggest that the Central News were parties to ‘vamping’ the telegram... What do you mean by ‘vamping’?—Inserting matter which is not in any original telegram.
(b)1741T. Betterton Hist. Eng. Stage vi. 151 He attempted to commence Dramatic Poet, by vamping up an old Play or two of Massinger and Decker. 1752Bolingbroke Study of Hist. v. 159 They maintained the dignity of history, and thought it beneath them to vamp up old traditions. 1825J. Foster Life & Corr. (1846) II. 67 The expedient of vamping up an old Sermon. 1902L. Stephen Stud. Biogr. IV. i. 21, I could not suppose that they were merely vamping up old material.
2. transf. To make or produce by or as by patching; to adapt, compile, compose, put together (a book, composition, etc.) out of old materials; to serve up (something old) as new by addition or alteration. Also with up (freq. = trump v.1 5 c).
(a)1644Bulwer Chiron. 113 This absurd motion of the armes, makes an Oratour seeme..as if he newly came from vamping his Oration. 1748Foote Knights Pref., The three principal characters..are neither vamped from antiquated plays, pilfered from French farces, nor the baseless beings of the poet's brain. 1774tr. Helvetius' Child of Nature II. 205 They consist, in general, of old characters, old incidents, and old catastrophes, vamped out in the language and dress of the day. 1827Carlyle Misc. (1840) I. 5 Well are he and Hennings of Gotha aware that this thing of shreds and patches has been vamped together for sale only. 1880Literary World 17 Dec. 416 Industry worthy of the veriest drudge that vamps books together for his daily bread.
absol.1792A. Murphy Grecian Daughter Prol., Historians..who only take Scissars and paste; cut, vamp; a book they make.
(b)1692Bentley Boyle Lect. 100 Which opinion hath been vamp'd up of late by Cardan and Cesalpinus and other news⁓mongers. 1760–2Goldsm. Cit. W. xxx, I set myself down, and vamped up a fine flaunting poetical panegyric. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 197 The usurpers..for the most part endeavoured to vamp up some feeble shew of a title by descent. 1814Trewman's Exeter Flying-Post 16 June 1 The falshood was vamped up on the authority of a pretended letter. 1850Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) VI. liii. 383 Forged letters were produced, a case of Majestas was vamped up. 1894Sala London up to date ii. i. 23, I have vamped up my description of the function from accounts which I have read.
†b. With personal object: To convert into, to bring forward as, something. Obs.
a1658Cleveland Charac. Diurn. Maker Wks. (1677) 101 It is like over-reach of Language..when a clumsie Cobler usurps the Attribute of our English Peers and is vamp'd a Translator. 1661K. W. Conf. Charac. (1860) 34 For..his preferment hath metamorphosed the antient titles of his progeneters..into master, and now he is vampt a gentle⁓man. 1773J. Berridge Wks. (1864) 134 Some people only vamp him up as a prophet: and trample on his blood.
3. Mus. To improvise or extemporize (an accompaniment, tune, etc.).
1789Burney Hist. Music III. 102 note, I remember very early in my musical life to have heard one of the town waits at Shrewsbury vamp a base upon all occasions. 1861Mayhew London Labour III. 191/2 As soon as I could get in to vamp the tunes on the banjo a little. 1897Sir A. Sullivan in Strand Dec. 654/1 Then the voice parts are written out by the copyist, and the rehearsals begin; the composer..vamping an accompaniment.
b. intr. To improvise an accompaniment.
1876in Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms 445/1. 1884 B'ham Daily Post 23 Feb. 3/5 Pianist and Vocalist; one who can vamp.
II.
4. intr. To make one's way on foot; to tramp or trudge. Now dial.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. ii. 73 If my hard hearted Queen should vamp to Charon. Ibid. iv. xxv. 285 That is the Knight, that must be the example, That the prime horse, that with Knight-Errants vamp will. 1681H. Foule Hist. Romish Treas. 133 When Humility vamps on foot. 1705Wandering Spy No. 19. 73, I Vaumpt along Cheapside, down the Poultry. 1747T. Hazard, Son of Robt. (1893) 241 Our chief concern was about packing up our alls and vamping off. 1887T. Hardy Woodlanders I. ii. 24, I shouldn't have vamped all these miles for any less important employer. 1891― Tess I. 12 Well, vamp on to Marlott, will ye, and order that carriage. 1893in Wiltshire Gloss.
b. trans. To tramp or walk (the streets). rare.
1898T. Hardy Wessex Poems 55 We vamped the streets in the stifling air.
▪ VI. vamp, v.2 slang.
trans. To pawn.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew s.v., I'll Vamp and tip you the Cole, I'll Pawn my Cloths, but I'll raise the Money for you. [Hence in later slang Dicts.]
▪ VII. vamp, v.3|væmp|
[f. vamp n.4]
1. intr. To behave seductively; to act as a vamp, to be a vamp. rare.
1904Ade True Bills 60 Any time that he fills in from eight o'clock to Midnight he certainly has to do some Vamping. 1922Observer 1 Oct. 5/4 Trollope's Signora Neroni certainly vamped.
2. trans. To act as a vamp towards; to attract and exploit (a man, occas. a woman).
1918[see vamp n.4]. 1927Observer 20 Mar. 15/3 Her friend, Violet Usher..shamelessly vamped Randall, and he felt obliged to marry her. 1939L. M. Montgomery Anne of Ingleside xxv. 166 Don't try to vamp me, woman. I've paid you all the compliments I'm going to. 1973T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow ii. 245 Eager young chaps with patent-leather hair rush about trying to vamp the ladies. 1979D. Anthony Long Hard Cure xix. 150 Gavin's secret girl, who vamped him on the nights those four women were assaulted.
Add:3. Black English (chiefly U.S.). intr. and trans. Freq. with on. To attack physically; to persecute, intimidate; also spec., to arrest.
1970R. Seale Seize Time 16 Some of them were dudes Huey used to fight. He had gotten into some tight situations with some of them, and they knew that he'd vamp on them if they got wrong. 1971Black Scholar June 53/2 We were..forced to break up our toilet bowls, sinks and beds in order that we might defend ourselves..from those space-men looking pigs with their clubs, mace, and array of gas-masks, oxygen cans..with which we were vamped on. 1972Britannica Bk. of Year 1971 733/3 Vamp, to put under arrest—usually used with on. 1988E. Leonard Freaky Deaky xiv. 135 When the man goes to the men's room, I want you to follow him in and start to vamp on him. Tell him it's fifty bucks to take a piss or you gonna cut his dick off. 1990Newsday 26 Aug. 23/4 Several inmates said they have been ‘vamped’ on their way to the commissary and have been sexually abused. |