drip vs vamper

drip

verb
  • To fall one drop at a time. 

  • To have a superabundance of valuable things. 

  • To rain lightly. 

  • To be wet, to be soaked. 

  • To whine or complain consistently; to grumble. 

  • To leak slowly. 

  • To let fall in drops. 

noun
  • A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person. 

  • Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing. 

  • A drop of a liquid. 

  • A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping. 

  • A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing. 

  • An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream. 

  • That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater. 

vamper

verb
  • To swagger; to make an ostentatious show. 

noun
  • One who vamps; one who creates or repairs by piecing old things together; a cobbler. 

How often have the words drip and vamper occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )