schmoose

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
Alkmene	-	Greek Mythology
Dick (1)	DIK	English
Virgilio	veer-JEE-lyo (Italian), beer-KHEE-lyo (Spanish)	Italian, Spanish
Deonte	-	African American (Modern)
Berengaria	-	Ancient Germanic (Latinized)
Audamar	-	Ancient Germanic