noun
(Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music
• Topics: ↑Yiddish
• Hypernyms: ↑mawkishness, ↑sentimentality, ↑drippiness, ↑mushiness, ↑soupiness, ↑sloppiness
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/shmahlts, shmawlts/, n.
schmaltz.
Also, shmalz.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.