shmooze, shmoose, schmooze, schmoose, jawbone
(verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way
Source: WordNet® 3.1
jawbone (plural jawbones)
The bone of the lower jaw; the mandible.
Any of the bones in the lower or upper jaw.
(singular or plural, musical instrument) A shaken musical instrument (an idiophone) made from the jawbone of an animal and shaken such that the teeth vibrate in their sockets to produce sound.
• (the bone of the lower jaw): inferior maxillary bone, lower jaw, mandible, submaxilla
• (any bone in the lower or upper jaw): dentary, dentary bone, maxilla
jawbone (third-person singular simple present jawbones, present participle jawboning, simple past and past participle jawboned)
To talk persistently in an attempt to persuade somebody to cooperate.
Source: Wiktionary
Jaw"bone`, n.
Definition: The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
