schmältz

English - Turkish

Definition of schmältz in English Turkish dictionary

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schmaltz

fazla hassaslık

schmaltz

aşırı duygusallık

schmaltz

(isim) aşırı duygusallık

schmaltzy

aşırı duygusal

schmaltzy

duygusal

schmaltzy

(sıfat) aşırı duygusal

English - English

Definition of schmältz in English English dictionary

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schmaltz

Liquid chickenfat

schmaltz

Excessively sentimental art or music

schmaltz

(shmaltz Yiddish for melted or rendered chicken fat, schmaltz is used in English for "corn" as in excessive sentimentality; also as an adjec-tive, schmaltzy (corny)

schmaltz

disapproval If you describe a play, film, or book as schmaltz, you do not like it because it is too sentimental. = slush

schmaltz

{i} grease, melted chicken fat used in cooking; exaggerated sentimentality, overemotionality (Yiddish)

schmaltz

(Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music

schmaltz

Chicken fat/sentimentality

schmaltz

(n ) Chicken fat: I cook meat with schmaltz instead of butter to keep a kosher kitchen

schmaltzy

Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic

schmaltzy

{s} overly emotional, excessively sentimental

schmaltzy

disapproval If you describe songs, films, or books as schmaltzy, you do not like them because they are too sentimental. = slushy. a schmaltzy piece of music, book etc deals with emotions such as love and sadness in a way that seems silly and not serious enough (schmaltz (20-21 centuries), from shmalts , from smalz)

schmaltzy

(adj ) Sentimental; corny: The schmaltzy soap opera needs an original story line

schmaltzy

effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"

schmaltzy

soppy

schmalz

{i} rendered fat; exaggerated sentimentality, overemotionality (Yiddish)

Turkish pronunciation

şmälts

Pronunciation

/ˈsʜmälts/ /ˈʃmɑːlts/

Etymology

(noun.) 1935. from Yiddish Sol Steinmetz, in "Yiddish and English: The Story of Yiddish in America", suggests that this figurative derivation of "schmaltz" does not exist in Yiddish.