youthsplain

English

Etymology

From youth +‎ -splain, after mansplain.

Verb

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

1. To explain youth issues (as a youth) to someone much older, especially in a condescending manner.
   • 2021 February 8, “Undermining IPC betrays Barilaro’s deeper loyalties”, in The Sydney Morning Herald‎^[1]:

     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

Derived terms

• youthsplainer