mañana habit
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.18 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The perceived negative tendency of Spanish-speaking Americans and Filipinos to procrastination and laziness.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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 “that old mañana habit.”"