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schmaltz
[ shmahlts, shmawlts ]
noun
- Informal. exaggerated sentimentalism, as in music or soap operas.
- liquid animal fat, especially of a chicken.
schmaltz
/ ʃmɔːlts; ʃmælts /
noun
- excessive sentimentality, esp in music
- animal fat used in cooking
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of schmaltz1
C20: from German ( Schmalz ) and Yiddish: melted fat, from Old High German smalz
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Doerr, meanwhile, creates a tender kind of suspense, alive and surprising and hopeful without careening into schmaltz.
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The horror factor, however, takes a back seat when Ally and Jay share comically gratuitous moments of rom-com schmaltz.
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Debates about “Love Actually” are mainly about the quality of its schmaltz.
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Jimmy Cagney’s old schmaltz vehicle "Yankee Doodle Dandy" looks restrained by comparison.
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In what I hope is meant to suggest the falseness of these stories, Brown pounds the pastiche in the songs so hard it borders on minstrelsy: hip-hop for the fixer; fiddle schmaltz for the pilgrims.
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