What does schmaltz mean?
Definitions for schmaltz
ʃmɑlts, ʃmɔltsschmaltz
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Princeton's WordNet
schmaltz, shmaltz, schmalznoun
(Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music
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schmaltznoun
Liquid chickenfat
schmaltznoun
Excessively sentimental art or music
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Schmaltz
Schmaltz (also spelled schmalz or shmalz) is rendered (clarified) chicken or goose fat. It is an integral part of traditional Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine, where it has been used for centuries in a wide array of dishes, such as chicken soup, latkes, matzah brei, chopped liver, matzah balls, fried chicken, and many others, either as a cooking fat, spread, or flavor enhancer.
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Schmaltz is a term of Yiddish origin, which typically refers to rendered chicken or goose fat used in cooking eastern European Jewish dishes. In a more general context, schmaltz can also refer to excessive sentimentalism or melodramatic behavior, particularly in music, movies, or other forms of media.
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Schmaltz
Schmaltz or schmalz or shmalz is rendered, 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 to the German term Schmalz, meaning "rendered animal fat", regardless of source—both tallow and lard are considered forms of Schmalz in German, as is clarified butter. However, English usage tends to follow Yiddishand thus limit the term "schmaltz" to fat derived from domestic fowl. Schmaltz rendered from a chicken or goose was used by northwestern and eastern European Jews who were forbidden by kashrut to fry their meats in butter or lard, the common forms of cooking fat in Europe, as butter, being derived from milk, cannot be used with meat, and lard is derived from pork, an unkosher meat. Furthermore, tallow derived from beef or mutton would have been uneconomical, particularly given that virtually all suet is chelev and forbidden from consumption. Northwestern and Eastern European Jews also could not obtain the kinds of vegetable-derived cooking oils, such as olive oil and sesame oil, that they had used in the Middle East and around the Mediterranean. Thus Ashkenazi Jews turned to poultry fat as their cooking fat of choice; the overfeeding of geese to produce more fat per bird produced Modern Europe's first foie gras as a side effect.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
SCHMALTZ
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Schmaltz is ranked #12581 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Schmaltz surname appeared 2,461 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Schmaltz.
96.5% or 2,376 total occurrences were White.
1.5% or 37 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
0.8% or 22 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.6% or 17 total occurrences were Asian.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of schmaltz in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of schmaltz in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of schmaltz in a Sentence
It was kind of a weird play where everyone kind of didn’t know where the puck was and I kind of just saw it last second, (Nick) Schmaltz makes a great play and I just tried to shoot through a screen. It was good to see that one go in.
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