Definitions of schmaltz on the Web:
- (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn - Schmaltz or schmalz is rendered pig, chicken, or goose fat used for frying or as a spread on bread, especially in German and Polish cuisine. Someone with wealth, may be given the name schmalz, seeing as someone with money could afford 'schmalz' meat. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmaltz - schmaltzy - bathetic: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song ...
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn - schmaltzy - Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schmaltzy
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