manterrupted
manterrupted is the simple past and past participle of manterrupt.
Meaning of manterrupt
Verb
manterrupt (third-person singular simple present manterrupts, present participle manterrupting, simple past and past participle manterrupted)
- To interrupt condescendingly (a female interlocutor), presuming that the woman's word have little merit merely because she is not male.
- It was perhaps the most public example of the “manterruption” – that is, a man interrupting a woman while she’s trying to speak (in this case, on stage, by herself, as an award honoree) and taking over the floor.2015 January 20, Jessica Bennett, “How Not to Be 'Manterrupted' in Meetings”, in Time, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2018
Questions about manterrupted
- What is manterrupted the simple past and past participle of?
- Manterrupted is the simple past and past participle of manterrupt.
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