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maysplaining

When some one asks you a question and you skirt around answering it until you confuse the person that asked you the question.
Theresa May in question time is asked a question by the audience and she ends up not answering the question by maysplaining about something completely different.
by Dirlos June 2, 2017
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Mansplaining

When a man feels compelled to condescendingly explain something to a woman on a topic that any reasonable person could see she knows more about than he does.
"That's not what mansplaining means. Mansplaining is..." he mansplains.
by elllie_b August 26, 2018
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Quite regularly, during team meetings in front of every else, when a woman who is reporting on her own project work with which she is most experienced with and has worked in the field for over twenty years, another peer always feels the need to "complete" her sentences mid-way, talks over her, hijacks her time to shine, taking over the explanations, progress report, issue deconstruction, evaluation, or review, thinking that even though they only have one fifth of the experience, knows little to nothing of her project work in detail, they must though have the knowledge to report on the woman's work better than she can.
She (as the lead scientist): To report on my findings of the project work I have been completing for the past month,

He (as the apprentice): <interrupting> the results show... bladibla…

Her peers: rolling their eyes, internally thinking (there he goes again, mansplaining...what a narcissist!)
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m'amsplaining

When a feminist or social justice warrior explains how a white man (or anyone) should act according to progressive rules.
Domique was mamsplaining to Doug that his being a white male meant that he could not offer advise in any situation and was in fact worse than Hitler.
by darkurthe January 11, 2017
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momsplain

when a mother tells an authority in a subject her opinion, as it has more value than the expert in the field.
Although Coach Parcell has over 15 years of successful coaching experience, Valerie continued to momsplain to the coach about all of the things her could do to better the program.
by Edward Allan July 9, 2019
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McSplaining

When McDonalds tries to explain how their chemical-laden processed food is fresh, natural and healthy.
McSplaining: "See, here's our natural potatoes coming into this factory... here's where we send them through the slicing machine, here's where we fry them... oh, and pay no attention here... it's just where we dip them in ***dextrose*** and ***sodium acid pyrophosphate***."
by ephemeralman January 23, 2015
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Mapsplaining

Noun. A form of splaining in which a navigation app tells you how to get out of the same neighborhood you've lived in for years.
Google: "Turn right on Gerard Way."
Me: "No, really? Stop mapsplaining me, Google."
by Gebus1 April 21, 2019
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