vamp

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  1. noun The upper part of a boot or shoe covering the instep and sometimes extending over the toe.
  2. noun Something patched up or refurbished.
  3. noun Something rehashed, as a book based on old material.
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  • “You are a vamp, my little Masha,” Peter said, laughing. —  Blindfold Game
  • Rosemary Marchetti's transformation from a graying nonna of nine to a pixie-haired, hoop-earringed vamp was as recent as it was disconcerting. —  Ledbetter, Suzann - North of Clever
  • I nodded cautiously, not convinced that a vamp was the best person to clean off blood, especially one who had looked pretty hungry earlier. —  Chance, Karen - Touch the Dark
  • But then I give the glass to the gray vamp, and he's all, "Sweet." —  Christopher Moore - You Suck
  • There shouldn't be much blood at all unless we're dealing with one incredibly sloppy vamp, and even the grimiest bloodsuckers I know are usually fairly neat and tidy. —  Yasmine Galenorn - [Sisters of the Moon 2] - Changeling
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English vampe, sock, from Old French avanpie : avaunt, before; see vanguard + pie, foot (from Latin pēs; see ped- in Indo-European roots).
  2. Short for vampire.

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  1. from Middle English vampe, vaumpe, *vampay, vampies (also wampe, wampay), earlier vampett, vaumpet (in plural vaumpez), vauntpe, from Old French vantpie, aphetic form of avant-pied, French avant-pied, the forepart of the foot, from avant, before, + pied, foot: see van and foot.
  2. Middle English vampayen; from vamp, n.
  3. Origin obscure.
 

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