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Bandera de Venezuela

/Sounds like 'lam-BOO-syoh'/

A greedy eater who always wants more than their share — the person at the table who takes the biggest portion and eyes everyone else's plate. In Venezuela and Colombia, lambucio is a vivid word for food-specific greed.

Example

"No invites a ese lambucio, se come la mitad de lo que hay."

"Qué lambucio, ya te comiste dos platos y quieres más. → Don't invite that greedy eater, he'll consume half of everything."

"What a glutton, you already ate two plates and you want more."

Word family
Regional synonyms:

Hacer demasiado por alguien que no te corresponde sentimentalmente, desvivirse por una persona que ni te pela. Anglicismo de 'simp' adoptado en redes sociales.