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SCHMALZ

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does schmalz mean? 

SCHMALZ (noun)
  The noun SCHMALZ has 1 sense:

1. (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or musicplay

  Familiarity information: SCHMALZ used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SCHMALZ (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

schmaltz; schmalz; shmaltz

Hypernyms ("schmalz" 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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