chumbolone
n.— «“I gave him lip service,” Doyle said. “I didn’t know what he was talking about. I don’t wanna look like a chumbolone, an idiot, stupid,” Doyle said from the witness stand. There is a tasty Sicilian Easter cake called ciambellone, but Twan doesn’t look like a tasty Easter cake.» —“Playing dumb is wrong prescription” by John Kass Chicago Tribune Aug. 24, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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