siestas

Noun

siesta (plural siestas)

1. (countable) A nap, especially an afternoon one taken during the hottest part of the day in some cultures.
   • One humid afternoon a visitor did arrive to disturb Rottcodd as he lay deeply hammocked, for his siesta was broken sharply by a rattling of the door handle […]1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC
2. (attributive, offensive, sometimes) Laid-back attitudes to work or laziness, especially by a Hispanic person.
   • Lest we think all of this is due to the proverbial inefficiency of the Latin American - 'siesta people' - we can see some of these signs, perhaps in a less dramatic way, in European societies and in the celebrated 'tigers' of South East Asia.2001 February 1, Stanley E. Porter, Michael A. Hayes, David Tombs, Faith in the Millennium, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 21

   Synonyms:

   mañana

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