Mamaluke

A mamaluke is an Italian slang term, for someone who does something dumb, stupid, silly or foolish, or, is dumb, stupid, silly, or foolish.

I got these five mamalukes around me. They can’t earn five cents

by choppedbandit January 7, 2021

Marmaluke

Marmaluc' is Italian for a Marmaluke who is anyone who thinks he or she is hot shit. It comes from the Marmalukes who as Muslims couldn't use other Muslims as slaves, so they would go into a conquered city and have the parents bring out their young children to the street as they rode by inspecting them. Then upon spotting a child that seemed bright they would take that child screaming from the parents away to Egypt. There they would be given the equivalent of a Harvard degree and shown the Palace they could live in if they would become, say, the royal accountant etc. So they go back to their native lands strutting and all dressed in the most refined clothes to get their parents to go and live with them in opulence in Egypt. The locals didn't see these people as role models, but merely as sell outs.

You come strutting around here like some Marmaluke!

by Ricciardo Luigi May 21, 2018

mamaluke

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*

by BobM November 8, 2008

mammaluke

Slacker, slug, someone who has little cooth

You are a real mammaluke, you didn't clean up after you made lunch, and then you fell asleep on my couch and drooled all over my pillow!

by kim i January 28, 2008

marmaluke

An idiot with no common sense. Typically large oafs that speak mainly with one possibly two syllable words.

If you have seen the Godfather this will help. I'll put it in a sentence. That Luca Brasi is a real marmaluke.

by Jonny21 January 28, 2008

mamaduke

another term for mother
*mamadukes

What did mamaduke say?

by crystalstar August 23, 2007

momadukes

a word origanating from mom

yo momadukes u need anything form the store
mom: no thanx though

by Matthew andrews April 13, 2005