vamper
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[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈvæmpə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æmpə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Compare vaunt.
Verb
[edit]vamper (third-person singular simple present vampers, present participle vampering, simple past and past participle vampered)
- (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
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[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]vamper
- to vamp (seduce)
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of vamper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | vamper | |||||
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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 | – | – | – | ||||
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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
[edit]- “vamper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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