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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca