Bluesky web client
Login
2024
@subium.com
v1.0.0-α.14
·
Report bug
·
Contact
Post
Anya Taylor-Ham
@griph.bsky.social
·
7 days
stumbled onto this lynda Barry comic again which always makes me a little verklempt
9
478
1816
🫧RetroNekoArt/ Team Seafoam🫧
@retronekoart.bsky.social
·
7 days
what has the word "verklempt" to do with this comic? i´m german and "verklempt" means someone is prude. its also a rather old word no one really uses anymore.
5
2
Solysp
@solysp.bsky.social
·
7 days
In Yiddish it means (roughly) "overcome with emotion", guessing that's what they mean. Funny that the meaning in German isn't at all similar though.
2
34
doleful moo of a cow
@oulipien.bsky.social
·
7 days
You can sort of see it—"inhibited" vs "choked up" which does also mean you can't speak, you're stuck, etc. a much different valence but a related idea
20
Alexander Svensson
@wortfeld.de
·
7 days
Interesting: The Yiddish meaning (
en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A4%...
) is also a bit different from what Americans are using it for (Merriam-Webster tracks this „verklempt“ only back to 1991)
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/v...
פֿאַרקלעמט - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
en.m.wiktionary.org