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SHMALTZ
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music
Synonyms:
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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