Definitions by cornholio

verklempt 

Fake Yiddish for "overcome with emotion" -- from the "Linda Richman" skits on "Saturday Night Live"

I saw Sally Field with the Oscar. Oy, I was all verklempt.

verklempt by Cornholio September 29, 2003

Gabacho 

Chicano pejorative term for an English-speaking, non-Hispanic

The gabachos don't want to give drivers licenses to immigrants.

Gabacho by Cornholio September 29, 2003

hymie

A mildly pejorative term for Jews, made famous by Jesse Jackson

We're on our way to Kennedy Airport in Hymietown.

hymie by Cornholio September 29, 2003

three card monte 

A con game, frequent in the New York subways, involving playing cards.

Never play three card monte; you can't win.

three card monte by Cornholio September 29, 2003

dress 

Refers to the side of a man's trousers that his testicles hang.

Those earthworms don't even know whether they dress to the right or the left.

dress by Cornholio September 29, 2003

vigorish

Interest paid to a loan shark

There was so much vigorish on that loan that I knew my thumbs were headed for a breakup.

vigorish by Cornholio September 29, 2003

gibbone 

A crude, inept person

The plumbers who came to fix the leak were a pair of gibbones.

gibbone by Cornholio September 27, 2003