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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 music
Familiarity information: SCHMALZ used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
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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