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.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Joel	JOL (English), JO-əl (English), ho-EL (Spanish), zhoo-EL (Portuguese), YO-el (Swedish, Finnish)	English, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish, Biblical
Nethaniah	neth-ə-NIE-ə (English)	Biblical
Christabel	KRIS-tə-bel	English (Rare)
Nicolau	nee-koo-LOW (Portuguese)	Portuguese, Galician, Catalan
Auberon	O-bər-ahn	English (Rare)
Hubert	HYOO-bərt (English), HOO-bert (German), HUY-bərt (Dutch), uy-BER (French), HUW-bert (Polish)	English, German, Dutch, French, Polish, Ancient Germanic