Dictionary

youthsplain en · VERB

Etymology

From youth + -splain, after mansplain.

Meanings

1. To explain youth issues (as a youth) to someone much older, especially in a condescending manner.
   • I want youthsplain to become a new word, now I read that mansplain is the runner-up to “fake news” for word of the decade. Youthsplain will call out patronising assumptions that people over 60 “will be ignorant of the subject matter” especially when it’s to do with technology. - Janet Burstall, Lilyfield 2021 August 2, “Undermining IPC betrays Barilaro’s deeper loyalties”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

Forms

Antonyms

boomersplain

Deriveds

youthsplainer