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mansplainy en · ADJ

Etymology

From mansplain + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal) Engaging in, featuring, or characteristic of mansplaining.
   • It feels churlish — and, to be honest, at least a bit mansplainy — even to introduce the slightest hint of cold water on the growth of women’s soccer. The infusion of money is welcome, no question. The involvement of men’s clubs is, probably, necessary to accelerate the game’s growth. What matters most of all, of course, is the health of the structure as a whole. 2021 February 26, Rory Smith, “Have You Seen This Man?”, in The New York Times:
   • So, have pity on the mansplainer. His is the merely the voice of a patriarchal world eclipsed by a new one ... wait, did that sound mansplainy? 2014 July 26, Wallace Baine, “A man explains 'mansplaining'”, in Santa Cruz Sentinel:
   • The nods to how women react to men stripping ranges from the inexplicable […] to the utterly mansplainy, as in the scene in which two men discuss why (they imagine) women like male strippers. 2015, Maryann Johanson, "Spoiled Beefcake", The Riverfront Times, Volume 39, Number 27, 1 July 2015 - 7 July 2015, page 26
   • […] in Little Women everyone's favourite tomboy Jo March is eventually tamed into a 'good wife' by the paternally mansplainy Professor Bhaer […] 2015, Emily Berry, edited by Antonia Fraser, The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, pages 306–307:

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