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SHMOOZE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Yiddish) a warm heart-to-heart talk
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("shmooze" is a kind of...):
talk; talking (an exchange of ideas via conversation)
Domain category:
Yiddish (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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Talk idly or casually and in a friendly way
Synonyms:
jawbone; schmoose; schmooze; shmoose; shmooze
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "shmooze" is one way to...):
chaffer; chat; chatter; chew the fat; chit-chat; chitchat; claver; confab; confabulate; gossip; jaw; natter; shoot the breeze; visit (talk socially without exchanging too much information)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sentence examples:
Sam and Sue shmooze
Sam wants to shmooze with Sue
