单词 | vamping |
释义 | vampingn.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 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 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. 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 |
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