Vamped

ppl. a. [f. VAMP v.¹ Cf. the earlier NEW-VAMPED a.

  1.  With up. Mended or repaired with or as with patches; patched or furbished up; made up or composed of old materials and produced as new.

1729.  J. Macky, Journ. thro. Eng., I. iv. 74. Women in vampt-up old Clooths.

1753.  School of Man, 18. Is this the Business of a vamped-up Maid?

1759.  Dilworth, Life Pope, 100. He justly turns into ridicule several patched and vamped up buildings.

1850.  Kingsley, Alton Locke, v. They would not send out lying puffs of their vamped-up goods.

  b.  transf. and fig.

1806.  Surr, Winter in London, II. 152. The hackneyed, second-hand, vamped-up hearts one meets with in common.

1812.  Mar. Edgeworth, Manœuvring, i. A vamped-up sentimental conversation reason.

1884.  Truth, 13 March, 379/1. A passionate burst of vocal tragedy wedged in between an overture by S. Bennett and a violin concerto by Spohr leaves an unpleasing and vamped-up impression.

1892.  B. Hinton, Lord’s Return, 191. The vamped-up sentiment; the covert sneers.

  c.  Of a charge, story, etc.: Invented, fabricated, trumped up.

1802–12.  Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), IV. 170. A lawyer, who, knowing nothing about the matter, stands with a paper in his hand, containing a vamped-up story.

1871.  Smiles, Charac., xii. (1876), 361. A vamped-up charge of treason.

1874.  H. R. Reynolds, John Bapt., IV. § 5. 260. He bade them to terrorize no one, and bring no vamped-up worthless accusation.

  2.  Of an accompaniment: Extemporized.

1874.  in Slang Dict.