vamper
English
Etymology 1
Noun
vamper (plural vampers)
- 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.
- 1833, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs, Charles Knight, London, page 98:
Etymology 2
Compare vaunt.
Verb
vamper (third-person singular simple present vampers, present participle vampering, simple past and past participle vampered)
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To swagger; to make an ostentatious show.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)
Anagrams
French
Verb
vamper
- to vamp (seduce)
Conjugation
Conjugation of vamper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | vamper | avoir vampé | |||||
| gerund | en vampant | en ayant vampé | |||||
| present participle | vampant /vɑ̃.pɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | vampé /vɑ̃.pe/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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 historic1 | 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 | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | vampe /vɑ̃p/ |
vampes /vɑ̃p/ |
vampe /vɑ̃p/ |
vampions /vɑ̃.pjɔ̃/ |
vampiez /vɑ̃.pje/ |
vampent /vɑ̃p/ |
| imperfect1 | vampasse /vɑ̃.pas/ |
vampasses /vɑ̃.pas/ |
vampât /vɑ̃.pa/ |
vampassions /vɑ̃.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
vampassiez /vɑ̃.pa.sje/ |
vampassent /vɑ̃.pas/ | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | vampe /vɑ̃p/ |
— | vampons /vɑ̃.pɔ̃/ |
vampez /vɑ̃.pe/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Further reading
- “vamper” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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