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farklempt

farklempt 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 farklempt

comparativemore farklempt
superlativemost farklempt

Questions about farklempt

What is farklempt the alternative spelling of?
Farklempt is the alternative spelling of verklempt.

Words near farklempt in the dictionary

  1. Farkers
  2. farking
  3. farkleberries
  4. farkleberry
  5. farkled
  6. farklempt
  7. farks
  8. farl
  9. Farlam
  10. Farland
  11. farlands

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