The meaning of KVELL is to be extraordinarily proud : rejoice. Kvell Has Yiddish Origins.

To kvell is to experience pride and satisfaction from seeing others (particularly one’s children and grandchildren) excel. Kvell is a verb, so it would be accurate to say to your friend, “I am sure that you were kvelling when you watched your son graduate yeshivah.”

Synonyms for KVELLING: delighting, joying, exulting, bragging, glorying, rejoicing, triumphing, crowing; Antonyms of KVELLING: weeping, grieving, lamenting, regretting, bewailing, bemoaning

To feel or express pride about something or someone: "It is lovely to kvell for friends' and colleagues' success" (Henry Alford). [Yiddish kveln, to be delighted with, beam with pride, from Middle High German quellen, to gush, from Old High German quellan; akin to Old English cwylla, spring, water well.]

2024年10月16日 · kvell (third-person singular simple present kvells, present participle kvelling, simple past and past participle kvelled) ( intransitive , US slang ) To feel delighted and proud ; to boast ; to gloat .

2020年2月12日 · Most kvelling is individual, up close and personal. It’s you expressing pride in a child, spouse, sibling or friend. But there are other opportunities to kvell — read on for some key kvelling...

Pronounced: DAH-vun, Origin: Yiddish, to pray, following the Jewish liturgy. Kvell — To experience pride in someone else, typically one’s children, as in “David decided to go into oncology, and I’m just kvelling.” Kvetch — To complain, whine or fret, as in “He likes to kvetch at me when we serve kasha varniskes, because he doesn’t like it.”

to be extraordinarily pleased; especially, to be bursting with pride, as over one's family. An Americanism first recorded in 1965–70; from Yiddish kveln “be delighted”; compare Middle …

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