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adj. "Overly sentimental or romantic." (JPS)
"I didn't like the last movement of the Rachmaninoff--too schmaltzy."
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שמאַלציק shmaltsik 'fatty, greasy' (from שמאַלץ shmalts 'rendered fat') (the -y ending may be a nativized English version of the Yiddish -ik ending)
schmaltsy, shmaltzy, shmaltsy
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