gossip vs shmooze

gossip and shmooze both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gossip	Yes	No	Yes	No
shmooze	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, shmooze is a hyponym of gossip; that is, shmooze is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than gossip:

Other hyponyms of gossip include jawbone, schmoose, schmooze, shmoose.

gossip (noun)	shmooze (noun)
light informal conversation for social occasions	(Yiddish) a warm heart-to-heart talk
a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people
a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others

gossip (verb)	shmooze (verb)
wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies	talk idly or casually and in a friendly way
talk socially without exchanging too much information