What is Mamaluke?
1.
Italian or Italian-American slang for someone who did something foolish or silly. Usually aimed at males, and usually not in an overly hostile manner. More a term to use with a friend or family member in a teasing way that may also be a veiled insult against their manhood.
When a father calls his son a mamaluke, the word is often followed by a swift palm-smack against the back of the head.
May have originally come from Mameluke or Mamluke - Arab mercenaries who were most powerful from about the 13th to 16th centuries. Napoleon used these cavalry warriors as well. Their uniforms; white turbans, vests, red pants and equally colorful boots, may well have spurred the foolish, silly and/or unmanly label.
Mamaluke, take those olives off your fingers.
*smack*
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2.
Italian/Spanish for an idiot.
That mamaluke just cut me off!
3.
Italian-American slang for someone acting stupid, derived from the Sicilian word "vavaluci" meaning snail.
Why you gotta act like some kinda mamaluke?
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4.
n. The male version of a woman's
Jon always gets away with showing his mamaluke to friends while walking into class.
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5.
a made guy, who serves as a sacrafice to other made guys, when they are in trouble. The mamaluke usualy doesn't know hes the mamaluke, even after hes been sacraficed.
Im doing that mamluke's wife, daily, and that mamaluke's taking me to lunch at Carmines pizzaria.
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