Meanings
present singular third person manterrupts · participle present manterrupting · participle past manterrupted · past manterrupted
- 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
Blend of man + interrupt, after mansplain.
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