Word of the day: Gombeen
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'The term referred originally to a money lender and became associated particularly with those Irish Catholic shopkeepers and merchants'
Why do I doubt this.
> Several years ago, another project came to light that targeted Wikipedia. ... A 2008 exposé in the Electronic Intifada revealed: “A pro-Israel pressure group is orchestrating a secret, long-term campaign to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
Source: [How Israel and Its Partisans Work to Censor the Internet](https://www.unz.com/article/how-israel-and-its-partisans-work-to-censor-the-internet/)