tearjerker

See also: tear-jerker and tear jerker

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Etymology

tear +‎ jerker

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Noun

tearjerker (plural tearjerkers)

(informal) An emotionally charged film, novel, song, opera, television episode, etc., usually with one or more sad passages or ending, so termed because it suggests one is likely to cry during its performance.
Synonyms: cryfest, sobfest
- 2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, ISSN 0261-3077, OCLC 229952407, archived from the original on 8 April 2019:
  The many tear-jerkers deal with finality, with death and the end of love, with a stoicism pregnant with feeling.

Related terms

tearjerking

Translations

emotionally charged dramatic work

Dutch: tranentrekker (nl) m
Finnish: nyyhkytarina (fi); nyyhkyleffa (film)
French: tire-larmes (fr) m
German: Schnulze (de) f
Italian: strappalacrime (it), lacrimoso m
Polish: wyciskacz łez (pl) m
Serbo-Croatian: srcedrapateljna priča f
Spanish: lacrimoso m, lacrimógeno m, dramón (es) m (colloquial)
Swedish: snyftare c

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