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mansplainy

mansplainy adjective: engaging in, featuring, or characteristic of mansplaining.

Adjective

mansplainy (comparative more mansplainy, superlative most mansplainy)

  1. (informal) Engaging in, featuring, or characteristic of mansplaining.
    • So, have pity on the mansplainer. His is the merely the voice of a patriarchal world eclipsed by a new one ... wait, did that sound mansplainy?2014 July 26, Wallace Baine, “A man explains 'mansplaining'”, in Santa Cruz Sentinel
    • […] in Little Women everyone's favourite tomboy Jo March is eventually tamed into a 'good wife' by the paternally mansplainy Professor Bhaer […]2015, Emily Berry, edited by Antonia Fraser, The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, pages 306–307

Examples of mansplainy in a sentence

  • The nods to how women react to men stripping ranges from the inexplicable […] to the utterly mansplainy, as in the scene in which two men discuss why (they imagine) women like male strippers.2015, Maryann Johanson, "Spoiled Beefcake", The Riverfront Times, Volume 39, Number 27, 1 July 2015 - 7 July 2015, page 26
  • It feels churlish — and, to be honest, at least a bit mansplainy — even to introduce the slightest hint of cold water on the growth of women’s soccer.2021 February 26, Rory Smith, “Have You Seen This Man?”, in The New York Times:

Forms of mansplainy

comparativemore mansplainy
superlativemost mansplainy

Origin of mansplainy

From mansplain + -y.

Questions about mansplainy

What does mansplainy mean?
Mansplainy means engaging in, featuring, or characteristic of mansplaining.
How do you use mansplainy in a sentence?
The nods to how women react to men stripping ranges from the inexplicable […] to the utterly mansplainy, as in the scene in which two men discuss why (they imagine) women like male strippers.
What part of speech is mansplainy?
Mansplainy is an adjective.

Words near mansplainy in the dictionary

  1. mansplained
  2. mansplainer
  3. mansplainers
  4. mansplaining
  5. mansplains
  6. mansplainy
  7. mansplanation
  8. mansplanations
  9. mansplay
  10. mansplayed
  11. mansplaying

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