manspreading

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14:56 Apr 4, 2020
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Additional field(s): General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters, Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc., Slang
English term or phrase: manspreading
Definition from Oxford:
The practice whereby a man, especially one traveling on public transportation, adopts a sitting position with his legs wide apart, in such a way as to encroach on an adjacent seat or seats.

Example sentence(s):
  • A student has faced an "unpleasant backlash" over her award-winning chair designed to stop "manspreading". BBC News
  • Anna Dovgalyuk, 20, has started splashing a mixture of water and bleach on the groins of men with their legs spread too far on the St Petersberg metro. The law student embarked on the one-woman crusade to stop manspreading and has accused men in her native Russia of "gender aggression" but says the country is not doing enough the tackle the problem. The Sun
  • Whilst it's most certainly not the politest of ways to sit oneself, does the act of manspreading really legitimise anybody to define space as “inherently gendered”, as Mic subsequently did? Is it actually a case of men monopolising a woman’s space out of intrinsic entitlement? Or does science play a bigger part than we might think? Independent
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5a ședea răscrăcănat
Eliza Filimon


  

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a ședea răscrăcănat


Definition from DEX:
A sta cu picioarele foarte desfăcute

Example sentence(s):
  • "Imaginea mea despre dânsul este că stă aşa, extrem de răscrăcănat'' - ziar  
  • E bine şi acolo, e şi mai călduţ, afară bate vântul…dar n-am cum să pot ocupa un loc din cele două, fiindcă pe toate trei stă răscrăcănat un tânăr om uriaş, cu ochelari de soare, cu glugă şi bocanci de târtan, mestecând şi pocnind din gumă - articol  

Explanation:
a se răscrăcăna, a sta răscrăcănat
Eliza Filimon
Romania
Local time: 22:12
Native speaker of: Native in RomanianRomanian
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