Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Unable to speak because of emotion; choked up.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
verklempt .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And all the while, you'll laugh hysterically and become tear-glazed, knot-throated, what my Russian bubby used to call "farklempt."
Rochelle Jewel Shapiro: Motherhood Out Loud Rochelle Jewel Shapiro 2011
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And all the while, you'll laugh hysterically and become tear-glazed, knot-throated, what my Russian bubby used to call "farklempt."
Rochelle Jewel Shapiro: Motherhood Out Loud Rochelle Jewel Shapiro 2011
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And all the while, you'll laugh hysterically and become tear-glazed, knot-throated, what my Russian bubby used to call "farklempt."
Rochelle Jewel Shapiro: Motherhood Out Loud Rochelle Jewel Shapiro 2011
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And all the while, you'll laugh hysterically and become tear-glazed, knot-throated, what my Russian bubby used to call "farklempt."
Rochelle Jewel Shapiro: Motherhood Out Loud Rochelle Jewel Shapiro 2011
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Sometimes commercials with cute puppies and babies can get me farklempt.
The Most Beautiful Words I’ve Ever Read About Grad School… « Imaginary Potential 2008
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Sometimes commercials with cute puppies and babies can get me farklempt.
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Seriously, while other people swoon over Brangelina, I get farklempt over theater folk.
Archive 2008-11-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2008
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Seriously, while other people swoon over Brangelina, I get farklempt over theater folk.
Party Like It's 1779 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2008
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As I look back on my longstanding Jew-adjacency, I find myself getting farklempt (all choked up) and experiencing a little tsuris (heartache).
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Maybe you're not Jewish, but you get farklempt when you see Barbra Streisand? ''
Metro Weekly (Newspaper Magazine of Gay and Lesbian DC) 2009
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