1) Animal fat product 2) Austrian cuisine 3) Corny quality 4) Drippiness 5) Excessive sentimentality 6) German cuisine 7) Maudlin quality 8) Maudlin sentimentality 9) Mawkishness 10) Mush 11) Mushiness 12) Oversentimentalism, slang 13) Schmalz 14) Sentimentality 15) Sentimentality plus 16) Shmaltz 17) Sickly sentimental 1) Bathos 2) Corn 3) Goo 4) Mush 5) Mushiness 6) Schmalz 7) Shmaltz 8) Treacle 
[English words of Yiddish origin] melted chicken fat; excessive sentimentality (from Yiddish שמאַלץ shmalts or German Schmalz)
Schmaltz or schmalz or shmalz is rendered (clarified) chicken or goose fat used for frying or as a spread on bread in German, Austrian, Polish and thus by historical extension, to Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine as well. The English term `schmaltz` is derived from Yiddish, and is cognate with the German term Schmalz, meaning `rendered animal fat`, re...
Schmaltz is slang for sugary and corny sentiments.
[n] - (informal) excessive sentimentality
shmaltz noun (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music
(Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music