youthsplaining
youthsplaining is the present participle of youthsplain.
Meaning of youthsplain
Verb
youthsplain (third-person singular simple present youthsplains, present participle youthsplaining, simple past and past participle youthsplained)
- To explain youth issues (as a youth) to someone much older, especially in a condescending manner.
- I want youthsplain to become a new word, now I read that mansplain is the runner-up to “fake news” for word of the decade. Youthsplain will call out patronising assumptions that people over 60 “will be ignorant of the subject matter” especially when it’s to do with technology. - Janet Burstall...2021 August 2, “Undermining IPC betrays Barilaro’s deeper loyalties”, in The Sydney Morning Herald
Questions about youthsplaining
- What is youthsplaining the present participle of?
- Youthsplaining is the present participle of youthsplain.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: youthsplaining (page history and authors); youthsplain (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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