Word Of the Week (WOW) is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. (me). It’s a fun way to improve one’s vocabulary by learning new words every week. If you want to participate then simply do a post with your WORD and leave the link to your post as a comment on one of my WOW post.

WOW

Here’s the WOW for this week :

1Word:

Schmooze

Part Of Speech:

Verb

Derivatives:

schmoozer: noun schmoozy: adjective (schmoozier, schmooziest)

Pronunciation: 

/ʃmuːz/ Click on the icon to listen to the pronunciation:  stock-illustration-25237577-speaker-icon

Meaning:

-Talk intimately and cosily; gossip. -Talk in a cosy and intimate manner to (someone), typically in order to manipulate them.

Synonyms:

Chit-chat, confab, chin wag, natter.

Antonyms:

–

Word Origin: 

Late 19th century (as a verb): from Yiddish shmuesn ‘converse, chat’.

Use in sentence: 

  • People will have time to schmooze during the cocktail hour.
  • She spent every spare minute of the conference schmoozing with the industry’s power players.
  • We had a wonderful schmooze about the old days

Here are some images showing “schmooze”: Schmooze_Chinwag-e1380667453120 chit_chat_by_meago-d4dq2iy


I hope you guys like this word and hope it’s useful to you in some or the other way! If you want to check out more words like this, then visit my page:

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18 responses to “Word Of The Week (WOW #21)”

  1. This is so cool! That word really sounds like its meaning!

    1. That’s what I thought when I first came across it. I really like the sound of it 🙂
      Isn’t it cute!

      1. It is indeed 😃

  2. There’s a lot of schmoozing here at work!

    1. Hahaha! You’re a lucky guy 😉

  3. Yiddish has the funniest words sometimes.

    1. Yea, they do have some really funny words 🙂
      Thanks for dropping by!

  4. Onomatopoeic, the word sounds its meaning…

    1. Yea. I like words like this, they make writing interesting! 🙂

  5. Yay!

    1. Thanks Priya 🙂

  6. […] of the Week (WOW) is a weekly challenge created by Heena Rathore P. It’s a fun way to improve vocabulary by learning new words every […]

  7. I like the sound of schmooze, Heena. It’s a modern-sounding word, and it wouldn’t suit my historical books, but it could be useful in contemporary novels. 🙂
    Here is the link to my WOW for this week:
    https://milliethom.wordpress.com/2015/06/07/word-of-the-week-wow-20/

    1. Thanks Millie… Yea, it’ll be fit for contemporary fiction… Can’t imagine the historical people using this term…hehe! 🙂

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