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[Professor MD]

Dear Elmer. The word has a Hebrew origin.The Hebrew origin of shmoo is shmuaa (an attempt at phonetic spelling) meaning an unreliable bit of news. The word was converted in Yiddish to a verb pronounced shmooz, meaning gossip amiably between friends, focusing on the bonding effect of the act while deemphasizing the content of the exchange. This term was transformed in the cartoon to shmoo and captured in the cartoon as two women gossiping (schmoozing in Yiddish) accenting their feeling toward each other by the multiple red hearts painted between them.