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fansplains

fansplains is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fansplain.

Meaning of fansplain

Verb

fansplain (third-person singular simple present fansplains, present participle fansplaining, simple past and past participle fansplained)

  1. (neologism) To explain something as a fan or in a fannish manner.
    • I’ll even fansplain away the bizarre “We Love Moms” and “Thanks Dads!” teasers—for Peanuts, a property that famously did away with parents entirely—as non-essential marketing chum, the cost of doing business in a Minionized marketplace where every animated character must be a blank slate to which...2015 July 28, Dan Kois, “Meghan Trainor’s People Interview About The Peanuts Movie Is a Total Disaster”, in Slate

Questions about fansplains

What is fansplains the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fansplains is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fansplain.

Words near fansplains in the dictionary

  1. Fansons
  2. fanspeak
  3. fansplain
  4. fansplained
  5. fansplaining
  6. fansplains
  7. fanstuff
  8. fansub
  9. fansubbed
  10. fansubber
  11. fansubbers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fansplains (page history and authors); fansplain (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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