manterrupt

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verb

To interrupt condescendingly (a female interlocutor), presuming that the woman's word have little merit merely because she is not male.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

verbmanterrupt (third-person singular simple present manterrupts, present participle manterrupting, simple past and past participle manterrupted)

present singular third person manterrupts · participle present manterrupting · participle past manterrupted · past manterrupted

  1. derogatoryinformalTo interrupt condescendingly (a female interlocutor), presuming that the woman's word have little merit merely because she is not male.

    It was perhaps the most public example of the “manterruption” – that is, a man interrupting a woman while she’s trying to speak (in this case, on stage, by herself, as an award honoree) and taking over the floor.

    2015 January 20, Jessica Bennett, “How Not to Be 'Manterrupted' in Meetings”, in Time, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2018

Origin

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APA

manterrupt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/manterrupt

MLA

“manterrupt.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/manterrupt. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “manterrupt,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/manterrupt.

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