mansplain

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
18
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈmanˌspleɪn/
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/ˈmanˌspleɪn/ · /ˈmænˌspleɪn/

Definition of mansplain

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (derogatory, informal)To explain (something) condescendingly (to a female listener), especially to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that she has an inferior understanding of it merely because she is female.
    “But what's getting all of the attention in the bill is the part where legislators have banded together to mansplain the various shadings of the crime of "rape" to America.”
    “There were some Occupy-style solutions: those whose voices dominate should “step back” for an entire meeting. […] Men should notice when they are “mansplaining” (this one got a thunderous ovation).”
    “Positioning himself as the white guy mansplaining to a black woman what’s best for her, The New York Times’s John Caramanica argues that Rihanna’s attempt, on the album, “to make public art with the person who physically abused you is immature, pre-feminist, post-ethics.””

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Etymology

Blend of man + explain, equivalent to man + -splain.

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