Schmaltz (noun)
sh-mal-ts
Excessive sentimentality, especially in music or films.
1930s from Yiddish shmaltz, from German Schmalz ‘dripping, lard’.
Example sentences
“They laid on the schmaltz immediately!”
Favonian (adj) fav-oh-nee-un Of or relating to the west wind./ Mild or favorable; propitious. 1650–60; Latin Favōniānus. See Favonius, -an. foehn (more…)
