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schmalz
schmaltz also schmalz S0137700 (shmälts)n.1. Informal a. Excessively sentimental art or music.b. Maudlin sentimentality.2. Liquid fat, especially chicken fat.
[Yiddish shmalts, animal fat, sentimentality, from Middle High German smalz, animal fat, from Old High German; see mel- in Indo-European roots.]
schmaltz′i·ness n.schmaltz′y adj.schmalzA German word meaning melted fat, used to mean excessive sentimentality.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | schmalz - (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or musicschmaltz, shmaltzsentimentality, drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, soupiness, sloppiness - falsely emotional in a maudlin wayYiddish - a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script |
schmaltz also schmalz
nounInformal. The quality or condition of being affectedly or overly emotional:bathos, maudlinism, mawkishness, sentimentalism, sentimentality.Informal: mush, mushiness, schmaltziness, sloppiness.Slang: sappiness.TranslationsIdiomsSeeschmaltzschmalz
Related to schmalz: schmaltzSynonyms for schmalznoun (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or musicSynonymsRelated Words- sentimentality
- drippiness
- mawkishness
- mushiness
- soupiness
- sloppiness
- Yiddish
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