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"Mistress" is an English equivalent of the Italian American slang word goomah.

Specifically, the word is a feminine noun in its singular form. It owes its existence to the Sicilian tendency to pronounce the letter "c" as hard "g" and to drop ending syllables. It traces back to the feminine noun comare ("godmother") even though the meanings of the two words differ.

The pronunciation will be "GOO-ma" or "goo-MA" depending upon the speaker's birthplace.

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