mancia

See also: Mancia, -mancia, and -mancía

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian mancia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmænt͡ʃə/

Noun

mancia

1. tip, gratuity
   • 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:

     Its landscape is one of inanimate monuments and buildings; near-inanimate barmen, taxi-drivers, bellhops, guides: there to do any bidding, to varying degrees of efficiency, on receipt of the recommended baksheesh, pourboire, mancia, tip.

   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:

     We got up and Don Carlo looked critically at the money I had left on the table. ‘That is too much. A mancia of two lire. The waiter will be dissatisfied with those who leave a smaller but more rational mancia.’ ‘You disapprove of generosity? Perhaps they will call me Don Quixote della mancia.’ Neither of them thought that funny.

Anagrams

• -maniac, caiman, maniac

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Italian

Etymology

Probably from Old French manche (“sleeve”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmantʃa/

Noun

mancia f (plural mance)

1. tip (in a restaurant, etc.)
   • 2003, Antonio Tabucchi, chapter XVIII, in Sostiene Pereira : una testimonianza [Pereira Declares], Rome: La biblioteca di Repubblica, published 1994, →ISBN, page 121:

     Salutò Manuel e gli lasciò una buona mancia.

     He saluted Manuel and left him a good tip.

Anagrams

• macina
• mancai
• manica, Manica