chupón
Spanish
adj
Definitions
- (Spain) hoarding, profiteering, sponging said of a person who abuses a situation to get the best of it, in broad sense, not only referred to money or goods, it can be used as a noun
Etymology
Suffix from Spanish, Castilian chupar (it sucks, sucks).
Origin
Spanish
chupar
Gloss
it sucks, sucks
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- chupacabras Spanish, Castilian
- chupacirios Spanish, Castilian
- chupador Spanish, Castilian
- chupaflor Spanish, Castilian
- chupamangas Spanish, Castilian
- chupamedias Spanish, Castilian
- chupamiel Spanish, Castilian
- chupapiedras Spanish, Castilian
- chupar Spanish, Castilian
- chuparrosa Spanish, Castilian
- chupasangre Spanish, Castilian
- chupeta Spanish, Castilian
- chupete Spanish, Castilian
- chupito Spanish, Castilian
- chupar Portuguese
- tsupon Cebuano
- tsupon Tagalog
- tchupa Kabuverdianu