goomah AmE informal

What's a goomah, and how does it differ from a goombah?

His "goomah" would be a graduate school drop out, not a former stripper.

Tony Soprano never brings his goomah home.

Her most recent husband is Fat Tony, though he was already married and regarded Selma as his "Goomah".

However, the hitmen stake out Phil's Ukrainian "goomah"'s house and confuse her visiting father for Phil, as they look similar.

I ran goomah past Jimmy Breslin, the Newsday columnist who wrote "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight," and he confirms the "alternative wife" sense.

Italian and Italian American gangsters and mafioso often refer to their mistress as a comare (Italian for "godmother"), often Americanized to goomah, goomar, or gomatta.

Imagined dialogue from "Harry Potter" that could be in "The Sopranos" "The point of the game is to throw the jamook through the goomah before the other team's mortadellas catch you."

Robin Green, another executive producer (it's hard to figure from the titles who is the show's capo di tutti capi), contrasts the "godfather" meaning of that word with goomah, which she defines as "mistress."

Later, at "goomah night," after Adriana had pointed out earlier that that he is always being saddled with the checks, Christopher forces Paulie to pay for their dinner after having refused to do so himself.

A younger woman who wants to talk about literary theory but settles for day trips to the Cape and Cambridge, his Connecticut goomah persuades Tony to buy her books on the philosophy of language at the Harvard Co-op and jewelry at Bailey, Banks & Biddle.