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cis-splain

cis-splain is the alternative form of cissplain.

Meaning of cissplain

Verb

cissplain (third-person singular simple present cissplains, present participle cissplaining, simple past and past participle cissplained)

  1. (Internet, colloquial, derogatory) To explain transgender issues, people or behavior to a trans person (as a cis person) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener’s inferior understanding.
    • Don’t ask us about transgenderism only to cissplain how we’re still “really” our birth sex and always will be.2012, Natalie Reed, "How To Ask A Trans Person Questions Without Being Insensitive About It", quoted in Benjamin Zimmer, Jane Solomon, & Charles E. Carson, "Among the New Words", American Speech...

Forms of cis-splain

third-person singular presentcis-splains
present participlecis-splaining
past participlecis-splained
pastcis-splained

Questions about cis-splain

What is cis-splain the alternative form of?
Cis-splain is the alternative form of cissplain.

Words near cis-splain in the dictionary

  1. cis-lunar
  2. cis-male
  3. cis-males
  4. cis-Neptunian
  5. cis-privilege
  6. cis-splain
  7. cis-splained
  8. cis-splaining
  9. cis-splains
  10. cis-supremacist
  11. cis-supremacy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cis-splain (page history and authors); cissplain (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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