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Webster 1913 Edition
Vamper
Vamp′er
,Noun.
1.
One who vamps; one who pieces an old thing with something new; a cobbler.
Vamp′er
,Verb.
I.
[Cf.
Vaunt
.] To swagger; to make an ostentatious show.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Jamieson.
The persons who turn
vampires
are generally wizards, witches, suicides, and persons who have come to a violent end, or have been cursed by their parents or by the church, Encyc. Brit.
2.
Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.
3.
(Zool.)
Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera
Desmodus
and Diphylla
; also called vampire bat
. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored. 4.
(Zool.)
Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus
Vampyrus
, especially Vampyrus spectrum
. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire
. Vampire bat
(Zool.)
, a vampire, 3.
Webster 1828 Edition
Vamper
VAMP'ER
,Noun.
Definition 2024
vamper
vamper
English
Noun
vamper (plural vampers)
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/ |
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| past participle | vampé /vɑ̃.pe/ |
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| 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/ |
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