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    SHMALTZ

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or musicplay

    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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