schmooze

The Japan Times Online、Sept. 18, 2011の記事タイトルです。
Noda to schmooze with world chiefs at N.Y. meet
この "schmooze" はYeddish由来の語の響きがし、前に取り上げた気がしますが、記録には無いようなので今日取り上げます。　まず、記事を読みます。（Ref. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110918a7.html )
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will make his diplomatic debut this week during a trip to New York City to attend U.N. meetings and hold bilateral talks with President Barack Obama and other world leaders.
上記が冒頭の文であり、 "schmooze" が "talks" と同じ意味である事が分かります。辞書で確認します。
・Cambridge Dictionaries Online: to talk informally with someone, especially in a way that is not sincere or to win some advantage for yourself: He spent the entire evening schmoozing with the senator.
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: to converse informally: chat; also: to chat in a friendly and persuasive manner especially so as to gain favor, business, or connections: People will have time to schmooze during the cocktail hour.
語源をOnline Etymologyでチェックすると、
also shmooze, "to chat intimately," 1897, from Yiddish shmuesn "to chat," from shmues "idle talk, chat," from Heb. shemu'oth "news, rumors." Schmooozer is from 1909.
とあり、やはりYiddishから出来た言葉でした。