schmaltz (redirected from Shmalts)

schmaltz also schmalz  (shmälts)

n.

1. Informal

a. Excessively sentimental art or music.

b. Maudlin sentimentality.

2. Liquid fat, especially chicken fat.

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[Yiddish shmalts, animal fat, sentimentality, from Middle High German smalz, animal fat, from Old High German; see mel-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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schmaltz, schmalz [ʃmælts ʃmɔːlts]

n

1. excessive sentimentality, esp in music

2. (Cookery) US animal fat used in cooking

[from German (Schmalz) and Yiddish: melted fat, from Old High German smalz]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

schmaltz - (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music schmalz, shmaltz sentimentality, drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, soupiness, sloppiness - falsely emotional in a maudlin way 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

Translations

schmaltz [ʃmɔːlts] N → sentimentalismo m, sensiblería f

schmaltz [ˈʃmɔːlts] n (= sentimental trash) → mièvrerie f

schmaltz schmalz [ʃmɔːlts] n (fam) → sdolcinatezza