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Define Verklempt Meaning

Verklempt
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.
By Farica
Verklempt
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"
By Claudetta
Verklempt
When u starting a business and u are choosing the name and call it a track name of your ex-boyfriend. That’s when u are VERKLEMPT

Hey , shall i call it Tsremli or Verklempt? Idk where i got these names from :)
Yesterday i was like : Var kle mapatiet , oh thats Verklempt
By Laetitia
Verklempt
Overcome with emotion / gobsmacked
also spelled verklemmt

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

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

The movie's farewell scene left me feeling verklempt.
By Karlyn
Verklempt
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...
By Goldy
Verklempt
Fake Yiddish for "overcome with emotion" -- from the "Linda Richman" skits on "Saturday Night Live"

I saw Sally Field with the Oscar. Oy, I was all verklempt.
By Denna
Verklempt
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?"
By Lexi
Verklempt
The state of being overcome with either to many, or not enough, choices such as; frozen; overwhelmed; unable to think.

While trying to think of a birthday present for my in-laws, I was just verklempt!
By Amalea