shmoose

Questions about shmoose

What does shmoose mean?

shmoose means "talk idly or casually and in a friendly way".

How many syllables are in shmoose?

shmoose has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for shmoose?

Close synonyms include shmooze, schmooze, schmoose, jawbone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shmoose a common word?

shmoose is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.