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shmooze vs shoot the breeze

shoot the breeze vs shmooze

shmooze is a noun but shoot the breeze is not a noun.

shmooze and shoot the breeze both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
shmooze Yes No Yes No
shoot the breeze No No Yes No
As verbs, shoot the breeze is a hypernym of shmooze; that is, shoot the breeze is a word with a broader meaning than shmooze:
  • shmooze: talk idly or casually and in a friendly way
  • shoot the breeze: talk socially without exchanging too much information
Other hypernyms of shmooze include chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, visit.
shmooze (noun) shoot the breeze (noun)
(Yiddish) a warm heart-to-heart talk
shmooze (verb) shoot the breeze (verb)
talk idly or casually and in a friendly way talk socially without exchanging too much information
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