"verkramp" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Afrikaans verkramp (“narrow, cramped”).",
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      "form": "more verkramp",
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      "form": "most verkramp",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1979, J. H. P. Serfontein, Brotherhood of Power: An Exposé of the Secret Afrikaner Broederbond:",
          "text": "The Hertzog Group supporters were labelled verkramp, and the Vorster supporters verlig. The fact, of course, is that the vast majority of Afrikaner Nationalists were and are verkramp, and only a small minority verlig.",
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          "ref": "1991, South Africa. Parliament, Debates of Parliament: Hansard (volume 9, issues 8-11, page 4171)",
          "text": "He made a speech which suggested that this process must be inclusive, that everyone must be pulled into the process. That is the type of approach that we need from the NPA which gives the distinct impression that it is verkramp, is lagging behind […]"
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          "ref": "2006, Sarah Britten, The Art of the South African Insult, page 25:",
          "text": "Over the years, Afrikaners developed a reputation for being verkramp[…]",
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        "Politically conservative."
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        "(South Africa) Politically conservative."
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