Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A companion or associate, especially an older friend who acts as a patron, protector, or adviser.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- see gumbe (Wiktionary)
- Probably alteration of Italian compare, godfather, from Medieval Latin compater; see compadre. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“That is entirely unlikely if not impossible for a organization that is ripe with gross corruption and lack of moral and ethical principles. melvin goombah”
“I didn't use 'goombah' as a slur: Few people have more connections to Italy or ...”
“Even better, is it now OK to call Giuliani "compare" (Italian for 'goombah')? ”
FLASHBACK: Coulter Used "Raghead" Slur At Last Year's CPAC Conference
“Jersey Shore could simply be receiving place in any series of towns as well as villages a stones throw from my hometown of Babylon - as well as a most viral shave from a uncover stars a violent goombah bully sort from a single of a subsequent towns over, Deer Park.”
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“A goombah from the old days plays host and takes the two to dinner whereupon Paulie starts reliving the past, talking up the war stories about bustin' heads, and busty blondes.”
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“His father, a self-described“goombah” who worked as a stonemason, broke out laughing, and Carmen never looked back.”
Fictionaut: Carmen Scarpino, Pioneering Wise Guy, Dead at 78
“She has a gaudy new mansion, pricey breast implants and spends thousands of dollars on shopping sprees for her spoiled brats -- but a New Jersey reality star and her goombah hubby are real-life deadbeats who owe $11 million, court records show.”
The Huffington Post: NJ 'Housewife' Teresa Giudice & Husband Joe Owe $11 MILLION
“As Spooky was beginning to cast the circle, some swamp-yankee goombah with a camera wandered up wanting to know what we were doing.”
“Nolan, this eccentric and dumber than a sack of hammers cat trust me, he is is still, at the end of the day, a big loveable goombah.”
“This stinks on ice and i dont know squat about it, that's how much it smells. trust the ol' goombah on this one, we know shakedowns. and this IS one.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘goombah’.
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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xyzprincess's Words
crabwise, virtu, peripatetic, idyll, trencherman, equivocate, flummery, hoi polloi, pixilated, albatross, wangle, bodacious and 170 more...
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M'ogle
As to feature the creature "mog".
cosmogony, transmogrify, glom, golem, mog, mogul, moggy, smog, demogenic, cormogeny, seismograph, primogenitor and 359 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.biffy, bibcock, barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibliobibuli, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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Friend or Foe
Also check out Reese Tee's Through Thick & Thin for more friend words.
comrade, netop, bro, bra, brah, girl, boy, dude, homie, dawg, best friend, BFF and 60 more...
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G is for Guitar Face
My G Words
good grief, gruesome twosome, gal friday, gallop, galoshes, gangbusters, gaslight, gestapo, gigolo, gingersnaps, girdle, girl friday and 67 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for goombah.
whichbe 1) a close friend or associate, especially among Italian-American men
2) mafioso; broadly: gangster
3) a macho Italian-American man May 12, 2008