Italian Mafia Slang Terms
- mafiabossbrand
- Feb 10
- 2 min read
Italian Mafia Slang Terms
stronzate– bullshit
Goombah– a male buddy
Un/una saccente– a know it all or a smart ass.
Chiaccierone– chatterbox
Che bruta– “How ugly you are”
Che peccato– “What a pity”
Bello– handsome
Cafone– loser
Omerta– This is the mafia’s vow of silence. You must take this vow to be in the mafia.
Amico– a friend that’s not a member of the crime family.
Mortadella– This is an Italian bologna however it’s used as ‘loser’ as well.
Chiudere il becco– to shut up. (literally meaning ‘to close the beak’)
Fratellanza– brotherhood
Pazzo– crazy
Va fa napole- This literally means ‘ go to Naples’ however in mafia lingo it’s ‘go to hell’
Imbarasso– embarrassment
Using Italian Mafia Slang Terms
So you want to be bad, tough, and part of the mafia? Yea, well, good luck goombah. It’s quiet difficult to be mafioso around these parts… You don’t want to be un saccente around us.
If you come around here being a chiaccierone and someone doesn’t like what you have to say, forgettabout it!
Che bruta, really, you are. Che peccato, usually, us mafioso’s are often bello. What the hell happen to you cafone?
Anyway, if you want to be made and take the omerta, I got to introduce you to him. You don’t need to know his name right now.
Here he is… Hey, I got someone you got to meet, no, not an amico, a real mortadella this one! He wants to join us, I told him to chiudere il becco but he won’t. Get outta here, I’m done with him, he’s all yours boss.
So you want to be in the fratellanza? You got some balls asking us about this matter. Are you pazzo?! You must be, do you know who we are!? Forgettabout it! You are nobody, you’re lucky I don’t wack you right now. Va fa napole!
MAFIABOSS
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