goombah

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Mark got his panties in a twist due to a Saturday Night Live sketch where Andy impersonates Mark as a goombah-ish dolt talking to animals.

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  • Mean Streets goombah neighborhood culture and applied it to a rise-and-fall of northeastern mob culture arc from the '50s to the' 80s with a lot of cinematic pizazz and that great narration from —  Hollywood Elsewhere
  • Now Cinema Paradiso humanist goombah Giuseppe Tornatore joins the anything-for-a-buck brigade with The Unknown Woman, an only slightly less disreputable exploitation film. —  Cleveland Scene
  • Mark got his panties in a twist due to a Saturday Night Live sketch where Andy impersonates Mark as a goombah-ish dolt talking to animals. —  ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs
  • Like that he runs into his mom when she's being manhandled by a low-grade goombah. —  Television Without Pity
  • And that low-grade goombah is manhandling her because she's into the mob for a sizeable payday advance. —  Television Without Pity
 

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  1. Probably alteration of Italian compare, godfather, from Medieval Latin compater; see compadre.
 

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