manterrupt

English

Etymology

Blend of man + interrupt, equivalent to man + -terrupt.

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.
    • 2015 January 20, Jessica Bennett, “How Not to Be 'Manterrupted' in Meetings”, in Time:
      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.
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