English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From vamp + -y.
Adjective[edit]
vampy (comparative vampier, superlative vampiest)
- Resembling or characteristic of a vamp; tending toward indecency
1988 November 18, Dorothy Samachson, “Moscow Classical Ballet”, in Chicago Reader[1]:She was a wonderfully campy, vampy siren, and her double fouettes in the coda were breathtaking.
