- Agita: anxiety, edginess, an upset stomach.
- Buon' anima: salutation meaning rest his soul.
- Cafone: a peasant or lower-class.
- Che bruta: How ugly you are.
- Che peccato: what a pity, what a shame.
- Chiacchierone: chatterbox.
- Col tempo la foglia di gelso diventa seta: old Italian saying meaning, "Time and patience change the mulberry leaf to satin."
- Comare (also goomah, goomar, or gomatta): slang for girlfriend or mistress. No self-respecting wiseguy is without one.
- Facia bruta: ugly face, something you call someone you don't like.
- Fanook, or Finook: derived from "finocchio" or fennel, a derogatory term for homsexual or gay, i.e., people that wiseguys feel nervous around. A "mezzofinook" is half gay, sissy, bi.
- Forbidden Fruit: the lure of a wiseguy to a nice Italian girl from the neighborhood.
- Gabagool: (capo cuoll) something to eat.
- Jamook: idiot, loser, lamebrained, you know, a jamook.
- Sfogliatelle: an Italian pastry.
- Strunz: strunzo—piece of shit.
- Stugots: from stu cazzo or u' cazzu, the testicles. Tony Soprano's boat is The Stugots.
- Madonn': Madonna, common expression meaning holy smoke, holy cow, holy shit.
- Mannagge: going to war with a rival clan or family.
- Mezza morta: half-dead.
- Puttana: whore.
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