mansplainy

English

Etymology

mansplain + -y

Adjective

mansplainy (comparative more mansplainy, superlative most mansplainy)

  1. (informal) Engaging in, featuring, or characteristic of mansplaining.
    • 2014, Wallace Baine, "A man explains 'mansplaining'", Santa Cruz Sentinel, 26 July 2014:
      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?
    • 2015, Emily Berry, in The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (ed. Antonia Fraser), Bloomsbury (2015), →ISBN, pages 306-307:
      [] in Little Women everyone's favourite tomboy Jo March is eventually tamed into a 'good wife' by the paternally mansplainy Professor Bhaer []
    • 2015, Maryann Johanson, "Spoiled Beefcake", The Riverfront Times, Volume 39, Number 27, 1 July 2015 - 7 July 2015, page 26:
      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.
    • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:mansplainy.
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