mañana habit
mañana habit noun: the perceived negative tendency of Spanish-speaking Americans and Filipinos to procrastination and laziness.
Noun
mañana habit (uncountable)
- The perceived negative tendency of Spanish-speaking Americans and Filipinos to procrastination and laziness.
- If the Californios as whole had any shortcoming, it was what the long-term American resident Eugene (or, more often, Don Eugenio) Rafael Plummer (1853–c. 1943) described, drawing on his own experiences for over 30 years as an official English-Spanish interpreter in the courts of Los Angeles, as...2017, Hunt Janin, Ursula Carlson, quoting Eugene Rafael Plummer, The Californios: A History, 1769–1890, McFarland, →ISBN, page 71
Origin of mañana habit
From Spanish mañana + habit.
Questions about mañana habit
- What does mañana habit mean?
- Mañana habit means the perceived negative tendency of Spanish-speaking Americans and Filipinos to procrastination and laziness.
- What part of speech is mañana habit?
- Mañana habit is a noun.
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