schmooze
verb /ʃmuːz/
/ʃmuːz/
[intransitive, transitive] (informal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they schmooze | /ʃmuːz/ /ʃmuːz/ |
| he / she / it schmoozes | /ˈʃmuːzɪz/ /ˈʃmuːzɪz/ |
| past simple schmoozed | /ʃmuːzd/ /ʃmuːzd/ |
| past participle schmoozed | /ʃmuːzd/ /ʃmuːzd/ |
| -ing form schmoozing | /ˈʃmuːzɪŋ/ /ˈʃmuːzɪŋ/ |
- to talk in an informal and friendly way with somebody, especially in order to gain an advantage by persuading people to like you and do what you want synonym chat
- schmooze with somebody He's been shcmoozing with customers at one of his restaurants.
- schmooze somebody politicians kissing babies and schmoozing the press
Word Originlate 19th cent. (as a verb): from Yiddish shmuesn ‘converse, chat’.