straightsplain
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To explain LGBT issues, people or behavior to someone who is not of a heterosexual orientation (i.e. an LGBT individual) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener's inferior understanding.
Colloquial; Derogatory
Example Sentences
- "There are several different degrees of straightsplaining. That word, inspired by the increasingly common "mansplaining," describes the practice of straight people explaining how gay people are, or what gay people do, or how gay people do what they do, or why."
- "What both Longhurst and Hartley-Brewer failed to notice was that, by trying to universalise the incident as an attack on, as they said, “the freedom of all people”, they were attempting to both whitewash and "straight-splain" Orlando."
- "And now, the plebiscite is dead. And hopefully so is the straightsplaining."
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Inflected Forms
straightsplains (present, singular)
straightsplaining (participle, present)
straightsplained (participle, past)
straightsplained (past)
straight-splain (alternative)