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Shmooze

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Slang Variant of schmooze.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. Alternative spelling of schmooze.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. talk idly or casually and in a friendly way

n. (Yiddish) a warm heart-to-heart talk

Word Usage

"I agree with Dr. N about using suck-ups as human shields - if she penetrates that line of defense or if you get shoved forth by some misguided prof expecting you to "shmooze" just shove a bunch of cheese cubes in your mouth and chew...nodding sagely from time to time."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

chitchat chaffer visit shoot the breeze chew the fat chat chatter confab jaw claver

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Chartreuse Cruz Druse Druze Hughes Jews Loos Mahfouz Meuse Muse