Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of schmooze.
Examples
“But early schmoozing is the best way to get results later.”
“Although NYC2012 will spend more than $3 million in cash and in-kind donations on the IOC tour stop, schmoozing is restricted.”
USATODAY.com - Salesmanship at the core of Big Apple's Olympic bid
“€200 million valuation and music label schmoozing is music to We7”
“But, my friend went on to explain, he dreaded the idea of schmoozing all night.”
“Constable was a private person, with a small circle of friends, no good at what co-curator Martin Gayford, author of the biography "Constable in Love," calls the "schmoozing" necessary to make a living by "painting aristocrats, politicians, generals and duchesses.”
The Wall Street Journal: Mark Manders's Strange Material World
“It's always amusing to watch musicians and their musician crowds networking "schmoozing" Tim calls it.”
“I base this on several explorations in the field ... and shots of tequila from various bottles and kegs from Jaliscan hosts has confirmed the belief that the best stuff is saved for savoring among family and friends and for clinching deals after considerable time spent 'schmoozing'.”
“This would be when the bells would ring for the property developers and construction companies who are financing Pretoria's expensive "schmoozing" campaign, he said.”
“The Sims 3 Late Night is full of ways to approach a rich, new life beyond a Sims 'normal day, such as schmoozing with celebrities on the rooftop of a skyscraper, wooing the crowd with your Sim's band, or being the best bartender in town at the hottest new lounge.”
“In the 1980s, the term "networking" came to signify a kind of schmoozing - opportunistic, self-promoting, vaguely disreputable.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘schmoozing’.
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Yiddishkeit
There are a few short lists of Yiddish words, but none appropriate to the glory of the language, and none that are open. Thought I'd start one, and would love contributions. I'm tagging as I go, an...
schmuck, nosh, chutzpah, shtick, kvetch, oy vey, oy gevalt, shvitz, shtik, shiksa, putz, mensch and 94 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1896 more...
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ffwordes
Words gleaned from the works of Jasper Fforde.
the big over easy, nursery crime div..., mary mary, dci friedland chymes, amazing crime sto..., the mystery of th..., the poisoned shoe, the sign of three..., inspector moose, detective inspect..., clear-up rate, sleuth illustrated and 796 more...
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
For example:
"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
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Word Box
A figurative box of words I don't want to miss.
quomodocunquize, distrain, foudroyant, vellicate, rhapsodize, dastard, zenzizenzizenzic, cuppa, fnese, intercloud, ofter, dimwitticism and 53 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for schmoozing.
zentree It derives from Yiddish. Nov 20, 2009
zentree Talking in a friendly and compelling fashion to gain a favor. Nov 20, 2009