mañana habit

English

Etymology

From Spanish mañana +‎ habit.

Noun

mañana habit (uncountable)

  1. The perceived negative tendency of Spanish-speaking Americans and Filipinos to procrastination and laziness.
    • 2017, Hunt Janin, Ursula Carlson, quoting Eugene Rafael Plummer, The Californios: A History, 1769–1890, McFarland, →ISBN, page 71:
      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.”
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