SHMALTZ

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music

Synonyms:

schmaltz; schmalz; shmaltz

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("shmaltz" is a kind of...):

drippiness; mawkishness; mushiness; sentimentality; sloppiness; soupiness (falsely emotional in a maudlin way)

Domain category:

Yiddish (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)

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