youthsplain

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verb

To explain youth issues (as a youth) to someone much older, especially in a condescending manner.

Opposite
boomersplain
Scrabble 19
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Meanings

verbyouthsplain (third-person singular simple present youthsplains, present participle youthsplaining, simple past and past participle youthsplained)

present singular third person youthsplains · participle present youthsplaining · participle past youthsplained · past youthsplained

  1. To explain youth issues (as a youth) to someone much older, especially in a condescending manner.
    1 more example

    I want youthsplain to become a new word, now I read that mansplain is the runner-up to “fake news” for word of the decade. Youthsplain will call out patronising assumptions that people over 60 “will be ignorant of the subject matter” especially when it’s to do with technology. - Janet Burstall, Lilyfield

    2021 August 2, “Undermining IPC betrays Barilaro’s deeper loyalties”, in The Sydney Morning Herald

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite
boomersplain

Origin

From youth + -splain, after mansplain.

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Cite this entry
APA

youthsplain. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/youthsplain

MLA

“youthsplain.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/youthsplain. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “youthsplain,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/youthsplain.

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