The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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PRONUNCIATION: | shmälts |
VARIANT FORMS: | also schmalz |
NOUN: | 1. Informal a. Excessively sentimental art or music. b. Maudlin sentimentality. 2. Liquid fat, especially chicken fat. | ETYMOLOGY: | Yiddish shmalts, animal fat, sentimentality, from Middle High German smalz, animal fat, from Old High German. See mel-1 in Appendix I.
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