Definition of mansplain in English:
mansplain
verb ˈmanspleɪnˈmænˌspleɪn
[with object]informal (of a man) explain (something) to someone, typically a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing.
I'm listening to a guy mansplain economics to his wife
Apparently you can't sell a second-hand car for as much as a new one. So glad he mansplained that to me
Example sentencesExamples
- Bravo, too, for the general misogynist stereotyping, victim blaming and general mansplaining.
- I was accused of "mansplaining" and of writing "a terrible article" that should never have been published.
- Leave it to him to mansplain why it's so bad having the women-folk working.
- How very sweet of him to offer to mansplain the budget to the dumb blonde who just got herself elected Senator.
- He tries to mansplain it with a weak athlete analogy, but she cuts him short.
- Don't mansplain female sexuality.
- Can someone mansplain to me why the price of a Hershey bar was so weirdly stable until 1970?
- For them to pretend that "diet culture" and "size zero" start and end within the exclusively female world of women's magazines is a massive pile of mansplaining, patronising nonsense.
- Allow us to mansplain.
- Where are we going to find someone to mansplain heterosexual lit?
Derivatives
noun
informal She's somewhat compromised by her romantic attachment to resident "mansplainer" Thomas.
Example sentencesExamples
- This is not to say that Hemingway wasn't a mansplainer par excellence.
- There is no conversation with a woman that a mansplainer feels more entitled to dominate than one centering on sports in general and football in particular.
- He's a compulsive mansplainer.
- Hopefully not sounding like a know-it-all mansplainer, what you're suffering sounds a lot like the initial days/weeks after my injury.
Origin
Early 21st century: blend of man and explain.
Definition of mansplain in US English:
mansplain
verbˈmænˌspleɪnˈmanˌsplān
[with object]informal (of a man) explain (something) to someone, typically a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronizing.
I'm listening to a guy mansplain economics to his wife
Example sentencesExamples
- Can someone mansplain to me why the price of a Hershey bar was so weirdly stable until 1970?
- Where are we going to find someone to mansplain heterosexual lit?
- Allow us to mansplain.
- How very sweet of him to offer to mansplain the budget to the dumb blonde who just got herself elected Senator.
- Don't mansplain female sexuality.
- I was accused of "mansplaining" and of writing "a terrible article" that should never have been published.
- Bravo, too, for the general misogynist stereotyping, victim blaming and general mansplaining.
- Leave it to him to mansplain why it's so bad having the women-folk working.
- For them to pretend that "diet culture" and "size zero" start and end within the exclusively female world of women's magazines is a massive pile of mansplaining, patronising nonsense.
- He tries to mansplain it with a weak athlete analogy, but she cuts him short.
Origin
Early 21st century: blend of man and explain.