English
Etymology
Italian.
Pronunciation
IPA: /'mænʧ�/
Noun
mancia
- a tip, a gratuity
#:* 1963: 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. � Thomas Pynchon, V.
#:* 1980: 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. � Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
Category:English nouns
Italian
Noun
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- tip (in a restaurant etc)
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