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
Margareta	mahr-gah-RE-tah (German), MAHR-gah-re-tah (Finnish)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, Slovene, Dutch, Finnish, Croatian
Ile	-	Macedonian
Shanna	SHAN-ə	English
Carolus	-	Ancient Germanic (Latinized)
Joshua	['dʒɔʃwə]
Sakari	SAH-kah-ree	Finnish