shmooze


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shmooze

 (shmo͞oz)
n. Slang
Variant of schmooze.
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Noun1.shmooze - (Yiddish) a warm heart-to-heart talk
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
talk, talking - an exchange of ideas via conversation; "let's have more work and less talk around here"
Verb1.shmooze - talk idly or casually and in a friendly way
chew the fat, chitchat, chit-chat, claver, confab, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, chat, chaffer, confabulate, gossip, chatter, visit - talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
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Recruiting Prince William to shmooze the Zionists follows the warm welcome extended to Netanyahu by Theresa May to the infamous Balfour Declaration celebrations in London last November and her earlier speech oozing adoration for Israel.
An earlier version of this Essay was presented at the Criminal Justice Ethics Shmooze at Fordham Law School.
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And Carroll's repeat of that trick against Everton brought a masterclass in how to rebuff people who are trying very hard to shmooze you into being co-operative.
Without Jews, the English language would not have words like klutz, pastrami, maven, shpiel, shmooze and chutzpah, as well as phrases like "money shmoney" and "enough already." Words and phrases like these entered the English language because bilingual Yiddish/English speakers used them in conversation and the Yiddishisms eventually became part of the English language.
Rahm Emanuel was wheeled out twice in May, along with Middle East adviser Dennis Ross, to shmooze a group of rabbis assembled for this purpose.
But I did come back into the city regularly to shmooze with the writers on the flat ground of Avenue A.
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He learned a lot from Garo, both in an understanding of his craft and in the importance of intelligent conversation and shmooze. (When Karsh returned to Sherbrooke, one of his first questions was "Where is the tennis crowd?") Ambition directed him to Ottawa.
Guild leaders said last week they're booting writers out of the first-floor space at WGA West headquarters commonly used to shmooze or work on projects, to use it as a strategy room.