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splain
splain
See also: -splain
English
Verb
splain (third-person singular simple present splains, present participle splaining, simple past and past participle splained)
- (slang) To explain.
- 1881 Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus
- "Howsomever, dey 'ranged der 'fairs, en splained der bizness."
- 1905 R. F. Foster "In Self Defence" in The Bookman, vol. 21.
- "Why, Lor' bless you, I never knew nothing about the rights of them things till you splained them to me yesterday, boss."
- 1947 John Avery Lomax Adventures of a Ballad Hunter p. 195
- "Den," he confided, "I 'splained to de release man 'bout lookin' fur a settin'-down job, an' he jes' sorta motioned to de do'."
- 1881 Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus