"Verklempt"

       It started with Connie and my talking about how “unkempt” the bed was lately:  our laziness.  Then it moved on to “verklempt,” probably from former Saturday Night Live comic Mike Meyers rather than a word we would have used.  It’s Yiddish for “clenched” or "choked," emotionally overwhelmed.

       And it’s pronounced more with an “f” than a “v”:  [fir-KLEMPT], but an expressive word it is! 

       “I’m verklempt!”  Nothing to do with “unkempt,”  but a mate’s being that way might make the partner verklempt!