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kvell verb to overflow with joyful pride US, 1967 Yiddish.- Despite having done a thousand lunch meetings at Nate ‘n Al’s, Orson never got the Yiddish right. He said kvel when he meant kvetch, schmutz when he mean schvitz and schlmeil for schlemazel. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 6, 1993
- CHER: My heart is totally bursting. DIONNE: I know. I’m kvelling! — Clueless, 1995
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