shmooze

schmooze

and shmooze and schmoose

1. in. to chat; to chew the fat. (From Hebrew schmuos via Yiddish.) You were schmoozing when you should have been listening.

2. n. a session of chatting or conversing. Come over, and let’s have a schmooze before you go.

verb

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Derry	-	Irish
Lejla	-	Bosnian
Pedro	PE-dro (Spanish)	Spanish, Portuguese
Leui	-	Biblical Greek
CirÍAco	-	Portuguese, Spanish
Tatyanna	ta-TYAN-ə	English (Modern)