Comare

Kate KcKinnon and Claire Foy as comares in a SNL sketch depicting a parody talk show called “Good Morning Goomah.”

This is the colloquial name for a mobster’s mistress.

It’s slang, pronounced “goo-mah” when using a heavy Italian-American accent. It’s a weird word, because that’s an American pronunciation of an Italian word, and it has a different meaning in America. And the English spelling is sometimes “goomar.”

A made man in the Italian mafia has a wife…and a mistress or “Comare.” The word actually means “godmother” in Italian – the joke being that a man names a woman he’s sleeping with on the side as the godmother to his children.

Why I Looked It Up

The word was used in The Sopranos a lot.

It’s also showed up in a couple SNL sketches. From a mafia-themed sketch with Lindsay Lohan:

Oww, I think I have a control of my comare [again, pronounced “goo-mah”] situation.

There was also an entire sketch entitled Good Morning Goomah. The sketch was about two comare’s running a talk show.