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In transitive terms the difference between flirt and vamp

is that flirt is to blurt out while vamp is to seduce or exploit someone.

As an adjective flirt

is pert; wanton.

flirt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer.
  • * Addison
    • Several little flirts and vibrations.
  • * Edgar Allan Poe
    • With many a flirt and flutter.
  • One who flirts; especially a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl.
  • * Addison
    • Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world.
  • An episode of flirting.

    • Synonyms

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.
    • They flirt water in each other's faces.
    to flirt a glove, or a handkerchief
  • To jeer at; to mock.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • I am ashamed; I am scorned; I am flirted .
  • *, II.27:
    • Asinius Pollio , having written many invectives against Plancus, staid untill he were dead to publish them. It was rather to flurt at a blind man, and raile in a dead mans eare, and to offend a senselesse man, than incurre the danger of his revenge.
  • To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.
  • * 2012 , Lenora Worth, Sweetheart Reunion
    • Her skirt flirted around her knees like a flower petal.
  • To blurt out.
  • * 1915 , Thornton W. Burgess, The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel , Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, Ch.XXI:
    • Chatterer flirted his tale in the saucy way he has, and his eyes twinkled.
  • (senseid)To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way.
  • * 2006 , The Guardian , 21 April:
    • Dr Hutchinson, who told jurors that he had been married for 37 years and that his son was a policeman, said he enjoyed flirting with the woman, was flattered by her attention and was anticipating patting her bottom again—but had no intention of seducing her.

    Antonyms

    * ("to insinuate emotional affection"): belittle

    Synonyms

    * ("to insinuate emotional affection"): coquet, tease

    Adjective

    (-)
  • pert; wanton

    • Related terms

    * flirtatious

    See also

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    vamp

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . * extended from 'shoe part' sense. * extended from 'improvised' sense. * (activity to fill in time) extended from 'repeated musical figure' sense.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking.
  • * 1869 , ,
    • The flow of water was in my ears, and in my eyes a hazy spreading, and upon my brain a closure, as a cobbler sews a vamp up.
  • * 1893 , ,
    • 'Yes, I am rather cracked in the vamp ,' he said freely, seeing that the eyes of the shepherd's wife fell upon his boots, ...
  • * 1976 , , p. 164,
    • Their dark brown shoes had hand-stitched vamps .
  • Something added to give an old thing a new appearance; a patch.
  • Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
  • (music) A repeated and often improvised accompaniment, usually consisting of one or two , to accommodate dialogue or to anticipate the entrance of a soloist.
  • * 2005 , , How Sondheim Found his Sound ,
    • I would go even further and say that, once Sondheim had ceased to compose classical music with its nonspecific accompaniments, he began to explore how effectively a vamp' can flesh out a character for the stage. He had little need to write distinctive '''vamps''' for his Williams shows, but already in 1954—before the highly characteristic '''vamps in ''West Side Story —we see him growing in his ability to get under a character's skin through his accompaniment.
  • An activity or speech intended to fill time or stall.
  • A volunteer fire fighter.
  • * 1892 , Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Fire Dept, Our firemen: the official history of the Brooklyn Fire Department, from the first volunteer to the latest appointee ,
    • John Mackin was among the number of "old vamps " who made application to the first Board of Fire ...
  • * 2000 , Turner Publishing Company, Atlanta Fire Department: Commemorative Yearbook ,
    • The vamps had to carry their equipment to the fire on foot!
  • * 2008 , John Delin, Syosset People and Places ,
    • Volunteer firemen are called vamps' because they often went to fires on foot, vamp being an old English word for "walk." Syosset's first ' vamps responded quickly to fires and formed bucket brigades to extinguish them.
    See also
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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (shoemaking) To attach a vamp.
  • To walk.
  • * 1891 , ,
    • "To be sure—I'd quite forgot it in my thoughts of greater things! Well, vamp on to Marlott, will ye, and order that carriage, and maybe I'll drive round and inspect the club."
  • To patch, repair, or refurbish.
  • * 1860 , ,
    • 'Set me some great task, ye gods! and I will show my spirit.' 'Not so,' says the good Heaven; 'plod and plough, vamp your old coats and hats, weave a shoestring; great affairs and the best wine by and by.'
  • (often as vamp up) to put together, improvise, or fabricate.
  • * 1839 , ,
    • For instance, you take the uncompleted books of living authors, fresh from their hands, wet from the press, cut, hack, and carve them to the powers and capacities of your actors, and the capability of your theatres, finish unfinished works, hastily and crudely vamp up ideas not yet worked out by their original projector, but which have doubtless cost him many thoughtful days and sleepless nights; ...
  • * 1911 , , The Flying Stars'', in '' The Innocence of Father Brown ,
    • With real though rude art, the harlequin danced slowly backwards out of the door into the garden, which was full of moonlight and stillness. The vamped dress of silver paper and paste, which had been too glaring in the footlights, looked more and more magical and silvery as it danced away under a brilliant moon.
  • (music) To perform a vamp; to perform a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, under dialogue or awaiting the readiness of a soloist.
  • * 1905 , ,
    • "It is so unkind to joke about it," said the beautiful young lady. "What shall I do? If somebody will vamp an accompaniment, I can get on very well without any music. But if I try to play for myself I shall break down."
  • * '>citation
  • To stall or delay, as for an audience.
    • Keep vamping ! Something's wrong with the mic!
    She went out there to vamp since the speaker was late arriving.
    Derived terms
    * new-vamp, revamp * vamp up * vamper

    Etymology 2

    Short for (vampire). From a character type developed first for silent film, notably for .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who uses sexual desire to exploit men.
  • * 1919 , Theatre Magazine , volume 29, page 389,
    • It is the vamp who has a sense of humor that can really hold a man. She laughs at him, even as she is seeking to allure him — and he adores it.
  • * 1922 , ,
    • She was got up to the best of her ability as a siren, more popularly a "vamp "—a picker up and thrower away of men, an unscrupulous and fundamentally unmoved toyer with affections.
  • * 1927 , , The Actor and the Alibi'', in '' The Secret of Father Brown ,
    • "Lady Miriam?" said Jarvis in surprise. "Oh, yes. ... I suppose you mean that she looks a queer sort of vamp . But you've no notion what even the ladies of the best families are looking like nowadays. Besides, is there any particular reason for doubting their evidence?"
  • * 1936 , '', then in later editions of '' The Scandal of Father Brown ,
    • 'Well, her seclusion is considered suspicious. She annoys them by being good-looking and even what is called good style. And all the young men are warned against her as a vamp .'
  • (informal) A vampire.
  • * 1992 , Robert Marrero, Dracula: the vampire legend on film (page 20)
    • The leader of the vampire cult (played by Ramon D'Salva) leads his cult of fellow vamps in an attack
    Synonyms
    * seductress, temptress, femme fatale
    Derived terms
    * vampish

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To seduce or exploit someone.
  • * 1936 , , The Vampire of the Village'', published first in ''(Strand Magazine)'', then in later editions of '' The Scandal of Father Brown ,
    • 'People who lose all their charity generally lose all their logic,' remarked Father Brown. 'It's rather ridiculous to complain that she keeps to herself; and then accuse her of vamping the whole male population.'
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