dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/vam_MW.json

{
  "vamoose":{
    "antonyms":[
      "arrive",
      "come",
      "show up",
      "turn up"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to depart quickly":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "it's getting late, so we had better vamoose",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Khan\u2019s group packed fast and vamoosed on a small airplane, which rose straight into a thrashing thunderstorm. \u2014 David Quammen, The New Yorker , 4 May 2020",
      "Nearby, a woman was making her own bathroom right next to the entrance of a residential building, vamoosing only when the doorman, Clever Santos Chavez, chased her away. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Feb. 2020",
      "In November, the owner of the building housing Trump\u2019s SoHo hotel in Manhattan paid the Trump Organization to vamoose . \u2014 Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer , 27 Jan. 2018",
      "The Senate left town for its August recess Thursday, a week after the House vamoosed , and let\u2019s hope the Members get an earful from constituents at home. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 4 Aug. 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1859, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Spanish vamos \"let us go,\" suppletive 1st person plural imperative (going back to Latin vadimus , 1st person plural present indicative of vadere \"to proceed, go\") of ir \"to go,\" going back to Latin \u012bre \u2014 more at wade entry 1 , issue entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "va-",
      "v\u0259-\u02c8m\u00fcs"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bail",
      "bail out",
      "begone",
      "book",
      "bug off",
      "bug out",
      "bugger off",
      "buzz (off)",
      "clear off",
      "clear out",
      "cut out",
      "depart",
      "dig out",
      "exit",
      "get",
      "get off",
      "go",
      "go off",
      "move",
      "pack (up ",
      "part",
      "peel off",
      "pike (out ",
      "pull out",
      "push off",
      "push on",
      "quit",
      "run along",
      "sally (forth)",
      "scarper",
      "shove (off)",
      "step (along)",
      "take off",
      "walk out"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-210404",
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "vamp":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a short introductory musical passage often repeated several times (as in vaudeville) before a solo or between verses":[],
      ": a woman who uses her charm or wiles to seduce and exploit men":[],
      ": improvise , extemporize":[],
      ": invent , fabricate":[
        "vamp up an excuse"
      ],
      ": the part of a shoe upper or boot upper covering especially the forepart of the foot and sometimes also extending forward over the toe or backward to the back seam of the upper":[],
      ": to act like a vamp":[
        "vamping for the camera"
      ],
      ": to piece (something old) with a new part : patch":[
        "vamp up old sermons"
      ],
      ": to play a musical vamp":[],
      ": to practice seductive wiles on":[],
      ": to provide (a shoe) with a new vamp":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1599, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb",
      "1914, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "1918, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "circa 1915, in the meaning defined at transitive sense":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English vampe, vaumpe \"covering for the foot, upper of a shoe,\" borrowed from Anglo-French, probably truncated from *vamp\u00e9 , reduced form of avanpi\u00e9 , from avant- \"fore-\" + pi\u00e9 \"foot,\" going back to Latin ped-, p\u0113s \u2014 more at vanguard , foot entry 1":"Noun",
      "short for vampire":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8vamp"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103225",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "vamp (up)":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":[
      "to create or think of by clever use of the imagination political spin doctors who can vamp up a justification for just about anything"
    ],
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-180228",
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "vamphorn":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a megaphone used in churches during the 18th and early 19th centuries":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "vamp entry 2 + horn ; from its use by the choir leader to amplify his voice as an accompaniment to the rest of the choir":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103617",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vampire":{
    "antonyms":[
      "prey"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a woman who exploits and ruins her lover":[],
      ": one who lives by preying on others":[],
      ": the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep":[],
      ": vampire bat":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "regarded debt collectors as vampires who made a living from the misery of others",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Publishers, Lucas pointed out, have nurtured audiences for items as strange as adult coloring books and young-adult vampire mysteries. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
      "Then again, maybe this was all just part of the Morbius star's process to get into character as a blood-sucking vampire . \u2014 Brendan Morrow, The Week , 14 June 2022",
      "This 1985 horror-comedy finds Carrey as a very horny (and sometimes possessed) high schooler in the midst of a wild vampire story. \u2014 Evan Romano, Men's Health , 13 June 2022",
      "However, by leaning into the mockery associated with the character, by essentially throwing themselves on the sword, Sony can use Jared Leto\u2019s self-serious living vampire as a comic foil for a later \u2018Sony\u2019s Spider-Man Universe\u2019 movie. \u2014 Scott Mendelson, Forbes , 6 June 2022",
      "Gellar played the eponymous vampire slayer Buffy Summers in the teen sci-fi series, which ran for seven seasons from 1997 to 2003. \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 2 June 2022",
      "Try the ghost, bat and pumpkin, vampire and bat or Halloween hayride sets. \u2014 Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
      "As mentioned, vampire Juliette is played by Sarah Catherine Hook and while her huntress lover Calliope is portrayed by Imani Lewis. \u2014 Seventeen , 17 May 2022",
      "Within vampire fangdom, er, fandom, there are those who are suckers for all of it and those who get cross about The Rules. \u2014 Michael Ordo\u00f1a, Los Angeles Times , 1 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1732, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from French, borrowed from German Vampir , borrowed from Serbian vampir":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8vam-\u02ccp\u012b(\u0259)r",
      "\u02c8vam-\u02ccp\u012b(-\u0259)r",
      "\u02c8vam-\u02ccp\u012br"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bloodsucker",
      "buzzard",
      "harpy",
      "kite",
      "predator",
      "shark",
      "vulture",
      "wolf"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-200427",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}