mansplainer

English

Etymology

mansplain +‎ -er.

Noun

mansplainer (plural mansplainers)

1. (informal) One (especially a man) who mansplains.
   • 2009 May 8, Karen Healey, “A woman's born to weep and fret”, in Karen Healey's Livejournal‎^[1], retrieved 2012-05-26:

     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 conversation?

     That dude is a mansplainer.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:mansplainer.

Related terms

• mansplain
• mansplanation

Translations

Translations

• French: mecsplicateur m
• Spanish: señoro (es) m