schmoozer

schmoozer

Someone who excels at or makes a point of chatting or gossiping casually with others, especially for personal gain or self-promotion. Originally from Yiddish. I've never liked that guy. He's always struck me as a schmoozer who's more interested in getting ahead than striking up a genuine friendship. A: "You certainly were gregarious at the party last night!" B: "What can I say? I've always been a talented schmoozer!"
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

schmoozer

n. someone who chats or converses well. Two old schmoozers sat muttering to one another all afternoon by the duck pond.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • shmoozer
  • schmoose
  • schmooze
  • shmooze
  • gossip
  • gossip about
  • gossip about (someone or something)
  • chat
  • chat about
  • chat about (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
Many reporters who have interacted with him through the years found him to be a natural schmoozer and a good source.
Savage admits he's not a big schmoozer and his company does next to no marketing.
According to Lett, an exceptional schmoozer walks away from a two-hour networking event with 12 new qualified contacts; trade show buyers should pat themselves on the back if they actually conversed with a dozen as well.
Her contacts were extensive and some described her as a talented schmoozer. But beneath Ruzicka's bubbly exterior was a single-minded determination to call the U.S.
Certainly, the image of a PR consultant as a phone schmoozer, event organizer and crafter of the killer press release is a thing of the past.
I finally realized that I don't have the stamina, energy or willpower necessary to spend the majority of my life chit-chatting on the phone or being a party schmoozer, even though evolutionary biologists would argue that gossip is a survival tool.
But since I'm a schmoozer, it is difficult for me to keep my nose to the grindstone, so I tend to get to know the registration help.
Chris Roybal is no schmoozer. Oh sure, he and his colleagues may have had a good deal to do with millions of dollars in economic value added to Utah's economy during the 90s, but it wasn't due to schmoozing.
On his election in 1992, the Arkansas schmoozer seemed to be a matchless meld of populist and policy wonk.
Whitman was the champion schmoozer, cruiser, and convivial gossip among American poets.
Carl sidles up to people that he has never met and starts conversations with the ease of a cocktail party schmoozer and the urgency of a congressional lobbyist.
He was a great schmoozer and, as I said before, he was very generous with his time.
No "feel your pain" schmoozer, Taft was a strongly principled Senate leader of few words who outflanked his opponents by outworking them and applying his incisive mind to the problems at hand.
As president and CEO of Milici, Ng Pack needs to be a combination of cheerleader, butt kicker, clairvoyant and first-class schmoozer. That's no easy task in an economy that seems stuck in neutral and with only fumes in the tank.
Ninety-eight coffees averaging $50,000 per schmoozer - for which he or she got a cup of java and three Danish - and Lincoln bedroom sleepovers at more than $100,000 a pop disprove any assumption that wealth necessarily reflects intelligence.