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mansplainer

mansplainer noun: one (especially a man) who mansplains.

Noun

mansplainer (plural mansplainers)

  1. (informal) One (especially a man) who mansplains.
    • Think about the men you know. Do any of them display that delightful mixture of privilege and ignorance that leads to condescending, inaccurate explanations, delivered with the rock-solid conviction of rightness and that slimy certainty that of course he is right, because he is the man in this...2009 May 8, Karen Healey, “A woman's born to weep and fret”, in Karen Healey's Livejournal, retrieved 26 May 2012

Forms of mansplainer

pluralmansplainers

Origin of mansplainer

From mansplain + -er.

Questions about mansplainer

What does mansplainer mean?
Mansplainer means one (especially a man) who mansplains.
What part of speech is mansplainer?
Mansplainer is a noun.
What is the plural of mansplainer?
The plural of mansplainer is mansplainers.

Words near mansplainer in the dictionary

  1. Mansouris
  2. Mansours
  3. manspeak
  4. mansplain
  5. mansplained
  6. mansplainer
  7. mansplainers
  8. mansplaining
  9. mansplains
  10. mansplainy
  11. mansplanation

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