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Mansplain

//ˈmanˌspleɪn// verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To explain (something) condescendingly (to a female listener), especially to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that she has an inferior understanding of it merely because she is female. derogatory, informal

    "But what's getting all of the attention in the bill is the part where legislators have banded together to mansplain the various shadings of the crime of "rape" to America."

Etymology

Blend of man + explain, equivalent to man + -splain.

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