manterrupt
verbEtymology
Blend of man + interrupt, after mansplain.
- derived from interruptus
- inherited from interrupten
Definitions
To interrupt condescendingly (a female interlocutor), presuming that the woman's word…
To interrupt condescendingly (a female interlocutor), presuming that the woman's word have little merit merely because she is not male.
- It was perhaps the most public example of the “manterruption” – that is, a man interrupting a woman while she’s trying to speak (in this case, on stage, by herself, as an award honoree) and taking over the floor.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for manterrupt. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA