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fiatsplained

fiatsplained is the simple past and past participle of fiatsplain.

Meaning of fiatsplain

Verb

fiatsplain (third-person singular simple present fiatsplains, present participle fiatsplaining, simple past and past participle fiatsplained)

  1. (derogatory, informal) To criticize bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in a condescending manner, often by nocoiners.
    • If you have ever had the displeasure of learning economics while in university or simply have had a pompous sheep fiatsplain to you why a sound money standard can never work you've likely had a professor or the fiatsplainer blame the gold standard for the Great Depression.2021 December 2, Marty Bent, “They Haven't Been Teaching Monetary History Accurately”, in Bitcoin Magazine

Questions about fiatsplained

What is fiatsplained the simple past and past participle of?
Fiatsplained is the simple past and past participle of fiatsplain.

Words near fiatsplained in the dictionary

  1. fiat monies
  2. fiated
  3. fiating
  4. fiats
  5. fiatsplain
  6. fiatsplained
  7. fiatsplainer
  8. fiatsplainers
  9. fiatsplaining
  10. fiatsplains
  11. fiawol

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fiatsplained (page history and authors); fiatsplain (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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