"manterrupt" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: manterrupts [present, singular, third-person], manterrupting [participle, present], manterrupted [participle, past], manterrupted [past]
Etymology: Blend of man + interrupt, equivalent to man + -terrupt. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|man|interrupt}} Blend of man + interrupt, {{affix|en|man|-terrupt}} man + -terrupt Head templates: {{en-verb}} manterrupt (third-person singular simple present manterrupts, present participle manterrupting, simple past and past participle manterrupted)
  1. (informal, derogatory) To interrupt condescendingly (a female interlocutor), presuming that the female speaker has less ability to transmit a message merely because she is not male. Tags: derogatory, informal
    Sense id: en-manterrupt-en-verb-OLzxNLf4 Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -terrupt

Inflected forms

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