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/Sounds like "mohr" (as in "more") + "FOHN" (as in "foam")/

Meaning

A person who eats too much or hogs everything without sharing with anyone. In Argentine soccer, the morfón is the player who never passes the ball even with five teammates wide open waiting for the pass.

Examples

Don't be a morfón and share the empanadas.

He's such a morfón, ate the entire pizza by himself.

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Regional synonyms
Bandera de México
Atascado

A little extra thrown in for free. From the Quechua word "yapa," meaning something added on top, ñapa is the bonus the vendor tosses in after you have already paid: an extra piece of fruit, an extra piece of candy, a little something to thank you for your business. A small gesture with a big cultural weight in Peru and other Andean countries.