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Knell vs Kvell - What's the difference?

knell | kvell |

As verbs the difference between knell and kvell

is that knell is to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll while kvell is to feel delighted and proud to the point of tears; to boast; to gloat.

As a noun knell

is the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.

knell

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee
  • * , The New Timon. A romance of London , Chapter 86
    • Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, / Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, alone .
  • to signal or proclaim something by ringing a bell.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.
  • * 1750 , , Line 1
    • The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

    Derived terms

    * death knell

    kvell

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To feel delighted and proud to the point of tears; to boast; to gloat.
  • *2013 , (Thomas Pynchon), Bleeding Edge , Vintage 2014, p. 4:
  • *:‘Magnificent residence,’ she pretended to kvell , ‘maybe I'm in the wrong business?’