manspreading

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14:57 Apr 4, 2020
English to Urdu 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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5 +1مردوں کا ٹانگیں پسارنا
Shikeb Shirazi


  

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مردوں کا ٹانگیں پسارنا


Definition from https://www.dawnnews.tv/news/48506:
ایک طالبہ کو اپنی ایوارڈ جیتنے والی کرسی پر "نا خوش گوار رویّے" کا سامنا ہے، جو کہ "مردوں کو ٹانگیں پسارنے" سے روکنے کے لیے تیّار کی گئی ہے۔

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  • ایک طالبہ کو اپنی ایوارڈ جیتنے والی کرسی پر "نا خوش گوار رویّے" کا سامنا ہے، جو کہ "مردوں کو ٹانگیں پسارنے" سے روکنے کے لیے تیّار کی گئی ہے۔ - https://www.dawnnews.tv/news/48506  
Shikeb Shirazi
United States
Native speaker of: Native in UrduUrdu, Native in PunjabiPunjabi

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