schmaltz
noun/ʃmɔːlts/
/ʃmɔːlts/
[uncountable] (informal, disapproving)- the fact of being too sentimental
- At the end of the movie we drown in a sea of schmaltz.
Word Origin1930s: from Yiddish shmaltz, from German Schmalz ‘dripping, lard’.Definitions on the go
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