verkramp

adjective /fəˈkrʌmp/

1. Politically conservative.

   Many a person when he enters for the first time the home of another these days inclines to ask himself, not whether the man is rich or poor, fond of dogs or gardening, but whether he is verkramp or verlig.

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Afrikaans verkramp (“narrow, cramped”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry verkramp (CC BY-SA 4.0).

← verklemptverlig →

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