vamping

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Vamp \Vamp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vamped (?; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Vamping.]

1.To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to to piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to patch; -- often followed by up. [1913 Webster]

I had never much hopes of your vamped play.— Swift.[1913 Webster]

2.To create with little skill; to concoct; to invent; -- usually with up; as, he vamped up an implausible excuse. [PJC]