vamper

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

French

Etymology

From vamp +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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