Talk:Goombah

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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."

It isn't the distortion as noted, but it does indeed mean "mentor" and "godfather" in the sense of someone older who takes an active interest in someone. My own father (I'm of Sicilian descent) took great pride whenever he introduced his Goombah to people.

To Italians and Sicilians, it is not a pejorative or slang term. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joe Gerardi (talk • contribs) 19:20, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

In reference to mafioso slang always felt it stood for an oaf with a thuggish attitude i.e. blockhead — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.179.84.88 (talk) 12:51, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

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This page is a mere dictionary definition (something which Wikipedia is not). It explains the meaning, probable origins and usage of a slang expression. While there is some interesting content here, I can't find any encyclopedic content on this page. Nothing here rises past what I would expect to read in a truly great unabridged dictionary. It also has some factual errors (such as asserting that it is regional to the greater NY area). The definitions and usage discussions belong over in Wiktionary where folks with the right skills, interests and lexical tools can more easily sort out the meanings and origins.

Options to fix the page here include:
 * 1) Expand the page with encyclopedic content - that is, content that goes well beyond the merely lexical.
 * 2) Redirect the page to a more general page on the appropriate sub-genre of slang.
 * 3) Replace the current contents with a soft-redirect to Wiktionary (usually done using the wi template).
 * 4) Move the disambiguation page to this title and clearly point the lexical content to the Wiktionary page.

Pending a better answer, I'm implementing option 4 for now. Rossami (talk) 04:20, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Confused Goombah here
Ok so is this an article or a disambiguation page? Because it really does not look a lot like a disambiguation page to me. I was about to implement "In The Martha Raye Show, Martha Raye called Rocky Graziano, who plays her boyfriend, her "Goombah". But when I clicked it stated this was a disambiguation page so I went to disambiguation do's and don'ts and there it says not to put external links. So I am utterly confused...help??? Thanks and God bless! Antonio El Goombah Boricua Martin decime che! 10:45 AM, February 3, (year of the Lord) 2015 (UTC)


 * I made the suggested split, shoving the disambiguation bit to Goomba (disambiguation). Wnt (talk) 19:35, 25 June 2016 (UTC)