Verklempt

What is Verklempt?


1.

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.

2.

Overcome with emotion / gobsmacked

also spelled verklemmt

"Now I am strating To get Verklempt !!!" Says Barbra Streisand during her 1994 US tour

3.

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."

See farklempt, choked up, distressed, overcome, tearful

4.

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"

See farklempt, gobsmacked, speechless

5.

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?"

See ferklempt, plotz

6.

Choked with emotion - as though the throat were *clamped*. Often a result of schmaltz.

The movie's farewell scene left me feeling verklempt.

See choked up, ferklempt, .

7.

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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