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faclempt

faclempt is the alternative spelling of verklempt.

Meaning of verklempt

Adjective

verklempt (comparative more verklempt, superlative most verklempt)

  1. (US, colloquial) Overcome with emotion, choked up.
    • Ferklempt Without You—Very pretty, sexy, fun, active, Jewish, 35, ad exec seeks handsome, funny guy for love and happiness. It'll be like buttah!1994 July 25, “Strictly Personals”, in Kurt Andersen, editor, New York, volume 27, number 29, New York, N.Y.: K-III Magazine Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 101, column 4
  2. (US, colloquial) Flustered, nervous, overwhelmed.
    • […] I noticed that Mom could barely hold a fork, write, walk, get up, sit down. She was verklemmt. Vermischt. More Yiddish words that mean what they sound like.2007, Susan G[oldsmith] Wooldridge, Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Process, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 218

Forms of faclempt

comparativemore faclempt
superlativemost faclempt

Questions about faclempt

What is faclempt the alternative spelling of?
Faclempt is the alternative spelling of verklempt.

Words near faclempt in the dictionary

  1. Facklers
  2. Fackrell
  3. Fackrells
  4. facks
  5. facks off
  6. faclempt
  7. facockta
  8. facocta
  9. facon
  10. faconne
  11. faconnes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: faclempt (page history and authors); verklempt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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