verklemmt

English

Adjective

verklemmt (comparative more verklemmt, superlative most verklemmt)

  1. Alternative spelling of verklempt
    • 2007, Susan G[oldsmith] Wooldridge, Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Process, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 218:
      [] 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.

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛrˈklɛmt/, /fər-/, [fɛɐ̯-], [fɐ-]
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  • Hyphenation: ver‧klemmt

Etymology 1

From verklemmt (etymology 2), the past particple of verklemmen (to jam, clamp, hem in).

Adjective

verklemmt (comparative verklemmter, superlative am verklemmtesten)

  1. inhibited; uptight; prude
    Erst wirkte er total verklemmt, aber nach ein paar Bier war er der Mittelpunkt der Tanzfläche.
    At first he seemed extremely uptight, but after a few beers he became the epicentre of the dancefloor.
Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

verklemmt

  1. Third-person singular present of verklemmen.
  2. Second-person plural present of verklemmen.
  3. Imperative plural of verklemmen.
  4. past participle of verklemmen
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