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How to pronounce shmooze in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms jawbone, schmoose, schmooze, shmoose
Type of visit, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip
Type Words
Type of talking, talk

Examples of shmooze

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Is the Middle East too much for even Clinton's resilient and conciliatory shmooze?
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Perry is a shmooze talking snake oil salesman.
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Beeson, like other industry figures, cites the lack of an attractive centralized congregating point where delegates can booze and shmooze together as one of the drawbacks of the London fest.
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  • (Yiddish) a warm heart-to-heart talk
  • Talk idly or casually and in a friendly way
  • Alternative spelling of schmooze
  • (Shmoozing) A Yiddish/English cultural term for chatting on relatively unimportant matters.
  • Chat; network: There was a lot of shmoozing at the company cocktail party.
  • To talk socially, network, shoot the breeze, chat up, kaffee-klatsch.