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Meaning of youthsplain | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To explain youth issues (as a youth) to someone much older, especially in a condescending manner.

Examples

“I want youthsplain to become a new word, now I read that mansplain is the runner-up to “fake newsfor word of the decade. Youthsplain will call out patronising assumptions that people over 60 “will be ignorant of the subject matterespecially when it’s to do with technology. - Janet Burstall, Lilyfield

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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