Schmooze

Definitions: Schmooze

Schmooze

Noun

1. An informal conversation.

Verb

1. Talk idly or casually, in a friendly way.

Date "schmooze" was first used: 1897. (references)

Synonyms: Schmooze

Synonyms: chat (n), confab (n), confabulation (n), jawbone (v), schmoose (v), shmoose (v), shmooze (v). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Schmooze

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	We dance, we kiss, we schmooze, we carry on, go home happy, what'd'ya say. Come on. (Hercules; writing credit: Ron Clements; Barry Johnson) This is how you schmooze and booze, you know what I mean? (Lefty-Right; writing credit: Rae McGrath)
Movie/TV Titles	Schmooze Dance (2000) The Big Schmooze (2000)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Schmooze

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Usage Frequency: Schmooze

"Schmooze" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Schmooze" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	50%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	25%	1	339,140
Lexical Verb (base form)	25%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Schmooze

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
schmooze	17
atlanta schmooze	2
club night schmooze	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Schmooze

Language		Translations for "schmooze"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		vakerál (to gas, to schmoose, to schmooze), társalog (argue, chat, converse, dispute, to chin, to converse, to rabbit, to rap, to schmoose, to schmooze), szövegel (to jaw, to rabbit, to rap, to schmoose, to schmooze, to spiel, to witter), smuzol (to schmoose, to schmooze), elbeszélget (have a chat, have a talk, to chat, to chin, to rabbit, to schmoose, to schmooze). (various references)

Pig Latin		oozeschmay

Russian		судачить, сплетничать (scandalize, tell tales, tittle tattle). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Schmooze

Language	Period	Translations
Classical Hebrew	200 BCE-Modern	shemu'oth. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Schmooze

Derivations
	Words beginning with "schmooze": schmoozed, schmoozes. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Schmooze"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "schmooze" (pronounced shmuw"z)
3	-m uw" z	moos.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Schmooze

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-h-m-o-o-s-z"
	-1 letter: mooches, shmooze.
	-2 letters: chemos, choose, comose, schmoe, smooch.
	-3 letters: chemo, chose, cohos, comes, cozes, echos, homes, homos, mooch, moose, mozos, oozes, schmo, zooms.
	-4 letters: chez, coho, come, coos, cosh, echo, hems, hoes, home, homo, hose, mesh, mhos, mocs, moos, mosh, mozo, ohms, oohs, ooze, shmo, shoe, shoo, some, zoom, zoos.
	-5 letters: coo, cos, coz, ems, hem, hes, hoe, mho, moc, moo, mos, oes, ohm, oho, ohs, oms, ooh, ose, sec, she, som, zoo.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-h-m-o-o-s-z"
	+1 letter: schmoozed, schmoozes.
	+4 letters: dichotomizes.
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