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mansplainer en · NOUN

Etymology

From mansplain + -er.

Meanings

  1. (informal) One (especially a man) who mansplains.
    • Think about the men you know. Do any of them display that delightful mixture of privilege and ignorance that leads to condescending, inaccurate explanations, delivered with the rock-solid conviction of rightness and that slimy certainty that of course he is right, because he is the man in this conversation? 2009 May 8, Karen Healey, “A woman's born to weep and fret”, in Karen Healey's Livejournal, retrieved 26 May 2012:

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Relateds

mansplain · mansplanation

Translations (2)

fr mecsplicateur (Translations) · es señoro (Translations)