-splain

A suffix combined with a descriptive adjective or noun to create a verb meaning someone who fits that description condescendingly explaining something to someone who does not fit that description (especially, something the listener has more experience of).

Suffix

  1. A suffix combined with a descriptive adjective or noun to create a verb meaning someone who fits that description condescendingly explaining something to someone who does not fit that description (especially, something the listener has more experience of).
    • So please, don’t ablesplain to me. Especially when you have no idea about the context of what bigotry you’re trying to justify. - 2012 December 22, Bunnika, “For reblogging: No crip has to be nice to ableists”, in...
    • You see, thinsplains Callahan, because nothing else seems to be working, we must turn to making obese people feel bad about themselves in order to shed the pounds. - 2013 January 15, Dan O'Connor, “Dan Callahan...
    • The PM urges 29-year-old Princeton alum O’Connor to decide immediately whether she wants a husband and children, and it sounds a lot like momsplaining to O’Connor that she definitely wants a husband and children. - 2014...

Origin

From splain, itself from explain, following the pattern of mansplain.

Forms

-splains -splaining -splained