Associations to the word «Schmaltz»

Wiktionary

SCHMALTZ, noun. (uncountable) Liquid chickenfat.
SCHMALTZ, noun. (uncountable) Excessively sentimental art or music.

Dictionary definition

SCHMALTZ, noun. (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats