English
manterruptmanterrupt
Blend of man + interrupt, after mansplain.
A blend of man + interrupt
Proto-Germanic *mann- ‘human being, person, man’
Proto-West Germanic *mann ‘person’
Old English mann ‘human being, person, man’
Middle English man
English man
Latin interrumpere ‘to break apart/off, interrupt’
Latin interruptus ‘broken apart’
Middle English interrupten
English interrupt
Today it means
verb To interrupt condescendingly (a female interlocutor), presuming that the woman's word have little merit merely because she is not male.
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