Synonyms for vamp

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : vamp

Phonetic Transcription : væmp

Définition of vamp

Origin : "extemporize on a piano," 1789, originally a noun meaning "part of a stocking that covers the foot and ankle" (early 13c.), from Anglo-French *vaumpé, from Old French avantpié, from avant "in front" + pié "foot." Sense evolved to "provide a stocking with a new vamp" (1590s), to "patch up, repair" (cf. revamp) to "extemporize." Related: Vamped; vamping.

noun seductress
verb seduce

Example sentences :

Who wants to pick up with anyone they can vamp in the Subway?
Extract from : « Working With the Working Woman » by Cornelia Stratton Parker

To “vamp” is equal, in musical language, to 34“scamp” or to dodge up.
Extract from : « Happy-Thought Hall » by F. C. Burnand

I gathered I had been guilty of falling for the Zerv equivalent of a vamp.
Extract from : « Valley of the Croen » by Lee Tarbell

Repeat 6th and 7th rows until you have 25 ribs, or the vamp is as deep as desired.
Extract from : « Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet » by Anonymous

Turn and work across top of vamp with a double in each stitch.
Extract from : « Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet » by Anonymous

Or did Mrs. Hill vamp you and make roast meat of your heart with her eyes?
Extract from : « The Thing from the Lake » by Eleanor M. Ingram

Well, Vamp, you know how to take the length of women's feet.
Extract from : « A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 (of 15) » by Robert Dodsley

It was inconceivable that the Vamp should not be out every evening!
Extract from : « Dust of New York » by Konrad Bercovici

Haven't got far in the book—'Ow to Vamp—but still I'm getting on.
Extract from : « Kipps » by H. G. Wells

But she was just as far from being a "Vamp," or even a sort of up-to-date Becky Sharp.
Extract from : « Vision House » by C. N. Williamson

Antonyms for vamp

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