Colloquial Variant guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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suffix
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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme, slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From splain, itself from explain, following the pattern of mansplain.
