WordUnscrambler Home
schmaltz
Definitions
[ʃmalts], (Noun)
Definitions:
- excessive sentimentality, especially in music or films
(e.g: at the end of the film the audience are drowned in a sea of schmaltz)
Phrases:
Origin
:
1930s: from Yiddish shmalts, from German Schmalz ‘dripping, lard’
Click here to see the free dictionary definition for schmaltz
definition by Oxford Dictionaries