shmooze vs gossip

shmooze and gossip both are nouns.

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

As verbs, gossip is a hypernym of shmooze; that is, gossip is a word with a broader meaning than shmooze:

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

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