Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. alternative spelling of faklempt.
Examples
“On a positive note, she just defined the word "verklempt" to all of middle America.”
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“I get pissed off because I always get 'verklempt'...but my big problem with Boheme is Act 4 - they make a big deal about getting Mimi some medicine.”
“Polly Syllabacus" was a great answer, but it left the cast as confused as when Gunn once used the word "verklempt".”
"I hope you die in an organza accident, you preening little cockatoo."
“No one got particularly verklempt, but just hearing my amazonian African-Canadian friend from Atlanta say "verklempt" was a hoot in and of itself...”
“In the early 1990s, comedian Mike Myers regularly dressed up in a giant wig, gaudy fake nails and gigantic sunglasses to become Linda Richman -- a stereotypical New Yorker who had fits of feeling "verklempt" and thought that Barbara Streisand's voice was "like buttah.”
“BALTIMORE -- In the early 1990s, comedian Mike Myers regularly dressed up in a giant wig, gaudy fake nails and gigantic sunglasses to become Linda Richman -- a stereotypical New Yorker who had fits of feeling "verklempt" and thought that Barbara Streisand's voice was "like buttah.”
“Once I reached the confines of my sanctuary and the experience started to turn around in my head as well as stir in my heart, I could feel myself becoming a bit verklempt.”
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“As Tim gets ready to do his exit speech he gets all verklempt, "there are only seven of you ... yeah, this gets harder.”
“Even the on-air crew at Golf Channel, where analyst Charlie Rymer got all verklempt after watching Woods 'televised apology in February, took their swings.”
“The wad of cash makes Gretchen verklempt, but Andy shrugs it off, because he is a secret baller.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘verklempt’.
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Yiddishkeit
There are a few short lists of Yiddish words, but none appropriate to the glory of the language, and none that are open. Thought I'd start one, and would love contributions. I'm tagging as I go, an...
schmuck, nosh, chutzpah, shtick, kvetch, oy vey, oy gevalt, shvitz, shtik, shiksa, putz, mensch and 94 more...
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The weird, the wonderful and the plain hilarious
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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Kingly epithets
Take one of CharlesFerdinand's excellent Merovingians or Goths, add a "the" and one of these descriptors, and presto, a character for your long-planned spoof fantasy novel.
unlikely, chuckleheaded, aloof, lacklustre, slow, murky, neurotic, clichéd, pediculous, dour, bungling, dandy and 23 more...
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Yiddish
tsuris, verklempt, haimish, bupkis, naches, nudnik, nebbish, bubbe meise
whichbe (Yiddish) (also ferklempt) overcome with emotion May 11, 2008