English

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 9781408859629, 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.