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Goombah and similar forms derived as an alteration or Anglicized spelling of the common Southern Italian familiar term of address, cumpà, the apocoped oxytone form of the word cumpari found in Southern Italian dialects and compare found in Standard Italian, which denotes a companion or friend.
goomar or goomah: Americanized form of comare, a Mafia mistress. goombah: an associate, especially a senior member of a criminal gang. heavy: packed, carrying a weapon. hit: to murder; also see whack. initiation or induction: becoming a made man. juice: the interest paid to a loan shark for the loan; also see vig.
Goomba, Goombah, or Gumbah may refer to: . Goombah, a slang term referring to people of Italian descent, mainly in the United States; Goomba, a species from the Super Mario video game series
Goombah is a dialectical distortion of the Italian word compare, meaning godfather, accomplice, or old pal.. Goombah is not a dialectical distortion of "compare," the word for godfather is "padrone."
The exact history and origin of the term is debated. [7]The term is "probably an agent noun" [8] from the word crack. The word crack was later adopted into Gaelic as the word craic meaning a "loud conversation, bragging talk" [9] [10] where this interpretation of the word is still in use in Ireland, Scotland, and Northern England today.
Joe Gallo was born in the Red Hook, Brooklyn, area of New York City.His parents were Umberto and Mary Gallo. A bootlegger during Prohibition, Umberto invested his earnings into a loan-sharking racket and did little to discourage his three sons from participating in local criminal activity.
Guido (/ ˈ ɡ w iː d oʊ /, Italian:) is a North American subculture, slang term, and ethnic slur referring to working-class urban Italian-Americans.The guido stereotype is multi-faceted.
Chutzpah (Yiddish: חוצפה - / ˈ x ʊ t s p ə, ˈ h ʊ t-/) [1] [2] is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad.A close English equivalent is sometimes "hubris".The word derives from the Hebrew ḥuṣpāh (חֻצְפָּה), meaning "insolence", "cheek" or "audacity".