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being overcome with emotion, usually not of joy, but rather emotions that hurt. As an emotional heartache. My neighbors house and mine are a total loss, the whole thing's left me so verklempt...
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Verklempt - choked with emotion (German verklemmt = emotionally inhibited in a convulsive way)
This is not FAKE Yiddish - unless you are one of the linguists who consider Yiddish a "fake", i.e. non-transformational language. OY, vey. When that schmuck of a doctor told me I had cancer I got all verklempt.
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Overcome with emotion / gobsmacked
also spelled verklemmt "Now I am strating To get Verklempt !!!" Says Barbra Streisand during her 1994 US tour
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Verklempt (adj) — choked with emotion (German verklemmt = emotionally inhibited in a convulsive way; stuck)farklempt, ferklemptToo emotional to talk. Ready to cry. Whenever Linda would get upset, she would put her hand on her chest and say "I'm all verklempt" or "I'm a little verklempt"
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Extremely emotional. On the verge of tears. "I'm so verklempt. I am so upset over Andy Pettite leaving the Yankees that I must go out for a very unhealthy, fattening, expensive lunch."
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Choked with emotion - as though the throat were *clamped*. Often a result of schmaltz. The movie's farewell scene left me feeling verklempt.
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1. Broken down, unusable, `gornisht helfn.' 2. Overcome with emotion, choked up. Gaia's Instant Messenger is verklempt.
"Nu? Ayn lid gezingt un dikh tzu verklempt?" |
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