Kvelled vs Knelled - What's the difference?
kvelled | knelled |
(kvell)
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?’
(knell)
to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* , The New Timon. A romance of London , Chapter 86
to signal or proclaim something by ringing a bell.
the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.
* 1750 , , Line 1
As verbs the difference between kvelled and knelled
is that kvelled is (kvell) while knelled is (knell).kvelled
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Verb
(head)kvell
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(en verb)knelled
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(head)knell
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Verb
(en verb)- not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee
- Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, / Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, alone .
Noun
(en noun)- The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,