请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 vamping
释义

vampingn.1

/ˈvampɪŋ/
Etymology: < vamp v.1
1.
a. The action of the verb, in literal and figurative senses.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [noun] > with a patch
clouting1382
piecing1395
vampeying1416
patching1445
vamping1599
patchwork1712
1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. at Cabeçado The vamping or putting to the instops to bootes.
1680 Vindic. Conforming Clergy (ed. 2) 50 It had certainly been a far more honest..Employment for him to have..hired a Stall, and set himself bodily to Vamping of Boots.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Vamps To graft a new Footing on old Stockings is still call'd Vamping.
1776 S. Foote Bankrupt iii. 64 Political papers should bear vamping; like sermons, change but the application and text, and they will suit all persons and seasons.
1819 Jeffrey in Cockburn Life (1852) II. 187 I have just got done with another Review... I have more vamping and patching than writing.
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets vii. 25 The mere vamping together of hostile voracities and opacities.
1860 All Year Round 8 Sept. 508 No vamping of him up into a severe ancient Roman will do.
b. attributive (in sense 3 of the verb).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [adjective] > improvising
vampingc1890
get-off1932
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing keyboard instrument > [adjective] > piano-playing > style of piano-playing
vampingc1890
stridec1938
c1890 (title) Reeves' Vamping Tutor.—The Art of Extemporaneous Accompaniment or playing by ear on the Piano.
1905 Church Times 30 June 842/4 Those strange, long, keyless trumpets, called vamping-horns.
1908 F. Bond Screens & Galleries Eng. Churches 147 One of the strangest instruments of the old choirs is the vamping trumpet.
2. Tramping, trudging. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > walking laboriously or aimlessly
trudging1570
traipsing1593
vamping1661
foot-slogging1895
schlepping1937
1661 K. W. Confused Characters 49 His quick motion and speedy vamping from place to place..makes him smell like a traveller.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

vampingn.2

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈvamping.
Mining.
(See quot. 1881.)
ΚΠ
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 189 Vamping, the débris of a stope, which forms a hard mass under the feet of the miner.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

vampingn.3

Etymology: < vamp v.3 + -ing suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈvamping.
Seductive behaviour; acting as a vamp.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > [noun]
dalliancec1385
mirding1614
coquetry1656
gallanting1664
coquetting1690
flirting1710
flirtation1718
philandering1737
agacerie1787
carryings-on1909
vamping1918
1918 N.Y. Times 15 July 9 Nancy tries her ‘vamping’ tactics on him and he confesses his crime.
1918 N.Y. Times 15 July 9 Enid Bennett In a New ‘Vamp’ Story... ‘The Vamp’..is a pleasing light comedy..in which Enid Bennett..appears as Nancy; an ingenuous wardroom girl at a musical comedy theatre where she hears sophisticated chorus girls tell how the female of the species may make the male buy her dinners and diamond bracelets by ‘vamping’ him... So Nancy, taking a tip from the chorus girls, ‘vamps’ him—and the wedding is a quick result.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2020).

vampingadj.

Etymology: < vamp v.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈvamping.
That vamps, in senses of the verb.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [adjective] > mended or repaired > with patches > patching
vampinga1625
a1625 J. Fletcher Bonduca i. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Gggg/2 Do you hope to triumph, or dare your vamping valour, good man Cobler, clap a new soul to th' Kingdom?
1737 M. Green Spleen 163 Whose easy vamping talent lies, First wit to pilfer, then disguise.
1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. xxix. 105 A pert vamping chaise-undertaker..demanded if Monsieur would have his chaise refitted.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
<
n.11599n.21881n.31918adj.a1625
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/1/31 7:09:13