Chatting it up; chewing the fat; shooting the breeze; buttering up the other parties in a conversation.

From a blend of two Yiddish words pronounced schmuesen, meaning talk and semuah, meaning rumor.

Affluent means having an abundance of wealth, property, or other material goods; rich.

Influenza is a pathological term designating an acute, commonly epidemic disease characterized by respiratory symptoms and general prostration.

Affluenza is a term designating extremely unfriendly, unpleasant, or antisocial behavior so extreme it's tatamount to a personality disorder or emotional disease similar in some ways to flu.

Affluenza is a behavior style most often instilled in a personality in a formative period of life by an extreme over-affluenent upbringing. A more common term for a youth suffering from affluenza is "spoiled brat."

The term "affluenza" is a metaphorical or figurative term for a kind of negative emotional behavior that's meant to replace other, more scientifically accepted terms for this kind of behavior.

Affluenza is not formally recognized as a disease in the field of psychology and the term is rarely used by psychologists, but it's sometimes applied to subtly (and perhaps incorrectly) suggest that, as with influenza, a victim can be afflicted with this behavior through no fault of his own and can be cured of it in later life.

A specially constructed phrase that is the source of a word or phrase that is an acronym.

This portmanteau word first appeared in the November 1983 edition of the Washington Post monthly neologism contest. Its winner, Meredith G. Williams of Potomac, Washington, defined it as the "same as an acronym, except that the words were chosen to fit the letters."

A bacronym's word or words are chosen to match a preexisting word or phrase instead of the other way around. You start with an existing word or phrase that may or may not be an acronym and from it create a new word or phrase to match its letters. For this reason a bacronym has been referred to as a "reverse acronym."

For example, in commercial aviation, the acronym ETOPS was created by the Federal Aviation Admininstration (acronym=FAA) to be an bacronym for the phrase Extended Range Twin Operations; however, in aviation slang, ETOPS is a play on this FAA acronym; in aviation slang, the bacronym ETOPS stands for phrase Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim.

Also spelled backronym.

Bionics is the field in which devices and mechanical parts are designed and constructed by combining mechanical and electronic engineering to assist humans in performing difficult, dangerous, or intricate tasks, as by supplementing or duplicating parts of the body.

A boatel is a waterside hotel with dock space for persons who travel by boat.