Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

manterrupt en · VERB

Etymology

Blend of man + interrupt, after mansplain.

Meanings

  1. (derogatory, informal) To interrupt condescendingly (a female interlocutor), presuming that the woman's word have little merit merely because she is not male.
    • It was perhaps the most public example of the “manterruption” – that is, a man interrupting a woman while she’s trying to speak (in this case, on stage, by herself, as an award honoree) and taking over the floor. 2015 January 20, Jessica Bennett, “How Not to Be 'Manterrupted' in Meetings”, in Time, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2018:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
manterrupts Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
manterrupting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
manterrupted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
manterrupted Tense=Past lexicographic

Coordinates

mansplain · mantrum · manspread