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vamped, ppl. a.|væmpt|
[f. vamp v.1 Cf. the earlier new-vamped a.]
1. With up. Mended or repaired with or as with patches; patched or furbished up; made up or composed of old materials and produced as new.
1729J. Macky Journ. thro. Eng. I. iv. 74 Women in vampt-up old Clooths. 1753School of Man 18 Is this the business of a Vamped-up Maid? 1759Dilworth Life Pope 100 He justly turns into ridicule several patched and vamped up buildings. 1850Kingsley Alton Locke v, They would not send out lying puffs of their vamped-up goods.
b. transf. and fig.
1806T. S. Surr Winter in London II. 152 The hackneyed, second-hand, vamped-up hearts one meets with in common. 1812M. Edgeworth Manœuvring i, A vamped-up sentimental conversation reason. 1884Truth 13 Mar. 379/1 A passionate burst of vocal tragedy wedged in between an overture by S. Bennett and a violin concerto by Spohr leaves an unpleasing and vamped-up impression. 1892B. Hinton Lord's Return 191 The vamped-up sentiment; the covert sneers.
c. Of a charge, story, etc.: Invented, fabricated, trumped up.
1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) IV. 170 A lawyer, who, knowing nothing about the matter, stands with a paper in his hand, containing a vamped-up story. 1871Smiles Charac. xii. (1876) 361 A vamped-up charge of treason. 1874H. R. Reynolds John Bapt. iv. §5. 260 He bade them to terrorize no one, and bring no vamped-up worthless accusation.
2. Of an accompaniment: Extemporized.
1874in Slang Dict. |