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mansplainers

mansplainers is the plural of mansplainer.

Meaning of mansplainer

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

Questions about mansplainers

What is mansplainers the plural of?
Mansplainers is the plural of mansplainer.

Words near mansplainers in the dictionary

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

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