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the state or condition of anxiety or nervous panic when having to deal with the male gender
dg is having manxiety over jg. oy. he will call soon, we promise.
manxiety by HCP crew January 9, 2005
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The moments of tension felt until all your Magners can be poured and you have a hand free again.
When given a pint-plus bottle of Magners Irish cider and a pint glass with ice, there is always quite a bit left in the bottle. This hiatus when standing in a bar and two hands are required to hold the beverage leads to several minutes of Mangxiety until you have drunk enough to discard the bottle and regain the use of a hand.
Mangxiety by Stuart McGuinness December 15, 2008
the unjustifiable anxiety a man may feel about his privileged future often treated by medication
Trevor felt deep manxiety when he thought of the lack of growth in his share portfolio in January
manxiety by annamatt January 10, 2018
The anxiety men give women by existing and taking up space. All of the unnecessary stress caused by men “doing things.” The man will say he isn’t triggering it intentionally, but will then repeat the behaviors claiming he can’t control them.
I am really hungry and want to go into the kitchen, but Jeff is triggering my manxiety. He is standing in there again chewing and breathing. I just can’t be around that right now. I am going to try some yoga first.
manxiety by Karen’s twin November 28, 2022
The anxiety a man feels in the presence of women as a result of his privileged position and out of fear that he will oppress a woman by his own actions or speech. He may also fear unintentional mansplaining.
Joseph was very much anxious that the situation in which he had just explained something to his girlfriend was mansplaining. He felt his own manxiety.
Manxiety by Mario Prgiolla December 29, 2023
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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