Did you mayhaps mean schmaltz?
Definitions
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music
Examples
“3: 59 PM oy vey, the shmaltz is clogging my engines ....”
“It assigned high school students Chekist shmaltz to read in place of history, with rosy portraits of Stalin and anti-Western distortions.”
“To make them even richer, instead of 2 tbsp of oil use 2 tbsp of shmaltz, rendered chicken fat.”
“The events were a strange U.S. hybrid that combined Nurembergian expressions of power, blind allegiance to a wartime leader, and TNN shmaltz.”
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“Never use “shmaltz” so that you can serve it with dairy or meat.”
“April 6th, 2009 5: 31pm stanley just an afterthought, wouldnt it be fun to put carl in a jar with onion skins until he got a tan and cover the laird in shmaltz so that he could grease up and down the walls of Glasgow university like a lump of lard, but tasting so much better. stanley Jerusalem”
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“My grandmother used to render shmaltz to great effect, and now because of George Bush's way of rendering, I no longer enjoy matzoh ball soup.”
“| Reply | Permalink totally noticed that too. some kind of Britt Hume, faux-intellectual, elderly wizard shmaltz.”
“Had a huge row with a good mate of mine after she died, as I thought the grieve-in shmaltz-fest was way way way over the top.”
“September 11, 2009 1:38 PM shmaltz herring said...”
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Ah, yeah, this is a list of words that I think sound pretty funny... or dumb, either way, I like 'em so, yeah.
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