shmoose

shmoose
vb
American
to chat or gossip at length, to have a heart-to-heart talk. This American Yiddish word comes from the Hebrew shmous, meaning 'things heard'. The word, spoken with a hard or soft final 's', has overtones of intimacy and affec-tion rather than malicious gossip.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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