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kvell

  [kvel]
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–verb (used without object) Slang.
to be extraordinarily pleased; esp., to be bursting with pride, as over one's family.
Origin:
1965–70, Americanism; < Yiddish kveln be delighted; cf. MHG, G quellen well up, gush
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