Citations:schmooseoisie

English citations of schmooseoisie

Noun: "(humorous) the class of people whose livelihoods are dependent on talking"

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• 1996 — Giles Coren, "They schmooze, therefore they are", The Times, 9 January 1996:

  However, we are about to witness the ascendancy not of a mere group, but of a new class, one of which Karl Marx never dreamt: the schmooseoisie.

• 1997 — Alex S. Edelstein, Total Propaganda: From Mass Culture to Popular Culture, L. Erlbaum Associates (1997), →ISBN, page 24:

  Uninyms contribute to wry forms of humor: The newly rich do not get the flu, they contract affluenza, and in this status they do not just chat, they become members of the schmooseoisie.

• 1997 — William Safire, "On Language", The New York Times, 3 December 1995:

  Based on her lively scholarship in The Atlantic Monthly, it explores the formation of such delicious words as the Yiddish-French schmooseoisie, "the expanding class of people in the United States who make a living by talk, as on radio and television."

• 2004 — Kaveree Bamzai, "Splat Screen", India Today, 27 December 2004:

  If the stars become the new schmooseoisie, where does that leave the good, old fashioned wannabes?

• 2012 — Lin Sampson, "The cringe crowd", The Times (South Africa), 5 February 2012:

  This posse of schmooseoisie, polished, primped and sufficiently flexuous to do a bit of iphone texting while holding a conversation, a glass of wine, a camera and a cellphone — and at the same time indulging in some serious shoulder surfing — checking if there’s someone further up the social ladder you haven’t yet air kissed.