guy vs vamper

guy

verb
  • To play in a comedic manner. 

  • To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November. 

  • To make fun of, to ridicule with wit or innuendo. 

  • To equip with a support cable. 

noun
  • A support rope or cable used to aid in hoisting or lowering. 

  • An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November). 

  • Buster, Mack, fella, bud, man. 

  • character, personality (not referring to a person, but pretending to) 

  • A support to secure or steady structures prone to shift their position or be carried away (e.g. the mast of a ship or a suspension bridge). 

  • A person (see usage notes). 

  • A man, fellow. 

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 guy and vamper occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )