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schmaltzy, a. colloq.|ˈʃmɒltsɪ, ˈʃmæltsɪ|
Also schmalzy.
[f. as prec. + -y1.]
Sentimentalized, over-emotional; ‘corny’. Hence ˈschmal(t)ziness.
1935[see groove v. 5]. 1949L. Feather Inside Be-Bop iii. 22 Edgar Hayes, a pianist whose schmaltzy record of Stardust had made him a Harlem juke box favorite. 1952B. Malamud Natural 170 A heavy-set German with a schmaltzy accent. 1959Guardian 27 Oct. 7/6 I'm working on something real schmaltzy for one of your women's magazines. 1962John o' London's 5 July 19/1 A few weeks ago she [sc. the All-American Mum] turned up in All Fall Down, embodied with searing schmalziness by Angela Lansbury. 1974T. P. Whitney tr. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago I. i. v. 218 Yuri painted for nothing schmaltzy pictures such as Nero's Feast and the Chorus of Elves and the like for the German officers on the commandant's staff. 1978P. Griffiths Conc. Hist. Mod. Music vii. 101 In the opera Lulu the effect of Berg's half-tonal serialism is an over-ripe schmalzy quality. 1980[see schmutzig a.]. |