botsplain

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English

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Etymology

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Patterned after mansplain, equivalent to bot +‎ -splain.

Verb

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botsplain (third-person singular simple present botsplains, present participle botsplaining, simple past and past participle botsplained)

  1. To provide a response that appears superficially helpful due to choice of polite words, which is in fact most often unhelpful due to the lack of human thought put into the response.