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1. (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music (noun.attribute)

hypernym	:	drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness,
definition	:	falsely emotional in a maudlin way (noun.attribute)

domain category	:	yiddish,
definition	:	a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script (noun.communication)