manspreading

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14:56 Apr 4, 2020
English to Slovak translations [PRO]
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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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4 +1rozťahovanie sa
Nina Varon


  

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1 day 1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
rozťahovanie sa


Definition from sme.sk:
Manspreading alebo rozťahovanie sa je zaberanie verejného priestoru, hlavne v prostriedku verejnej dopravy, väčšinou mužmi, ktorí sa posadia a výrazne sa na stoličke rozkročia, takže zaberajú telom viac ako jedno miesto.

Example sentence(s):
  • Ak muži na verejnosti "zaberajú veľa miesta", v angličtine na to existuje výraz manspreading. Ide o jav, kedy muž sedí s nohami ďaleko od seba, čím okupuje veľa priestoru. Ľudia, ktorí cestujú verejnou dopravou v Madride, sa na tento fakt sťažovali už roky, píše upworthy.com. - cas.sk  
  • Takéto zaberanie verejného priestoru je typické pre mužov a v angličtine preň dokonca vzniklo pomenovanie – manspreading. Tento neologizmus je kombináciou slov man (muž) a spreading (rozťahovanie alebo rozširovanie). - sme.sk  
  • Dopravná spoločnosť EMT v stredu oznámila, že vo vozidlách hromadnej dopravy pribudne nový piktogram. Cieľom je zákaz takzvaného „manspreadingu“. Anglický výraz označuje sedenie, pri ktorom pasažieri svojimi nohami zaberajú viacero sedadiel a obťažujú iných ľudí. Čítajte viac: - sme.sk  

Explanation:
I believe the term "manspreading" will be accepted as a neologism in Slovak language. So far, it has not been officially defined in dictionaries.
Nina Varon
United States
Local time: 10:25
Native speaker of: Native in SlovakSlovak

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