| 释义 |
kvell, v. U.S. slang.|kvɛl|
[ad. Yiddish kveln, ad. G. quellen to gush, well up.]
intr. To boast; to feel proud or happy; to gloat.
1967Listener 28 Dec. 849/3 The New York Spy is a useful and terribly bright guide to New York, conscientiously kvelling through ‘the city's pleasures’, charmed alike by brutal manners, as chronicled by Tom Wolfe, and the Jewish takeover (London swings but Jewish New York kvells). 1968L. Rosten Joys of Yiddish 199 Only from your children can anyone shep (derive) such naches (prideful pleasure) as makes you kvell. 1970L. M. Feinsilver Taste of Yiddish 364 ‘You've got reason to kvell’; ‘is he kvelling!’ |