shmooze

Other forms of shmooze

plural

shmoozes·

past tense

shmoozed·

present participle

shmoozing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shmooze

What does shmooze mean?

shmooze means "(Yiddish) a warm heart-to-heart talk". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shmooze?

shmooze has 1 syllable: shmooze. In IPA it is /ˈʃmuz/.

What is another word for shmooze?

Close synonyms include shmoose, 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 shmooze a common word?

shmooze is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with shmooze?

1 word rhymes with shmooze. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.