weedsplain
English edit
Etymology edit
Blend of weed + explain, equivalent to weed + -splain.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
weedsplain (third-person singular simple present weedsplains, present participle weedsplaining, simple past and past participle weedsplained)
- To explain cannabis-related topics in an over-confident manner.
- 2018 April, “Special Weed Issue April '18”, in F Newsmagazine[1] (PDF), archived from the original on July 3, 2022:
- Chances are, whether you smoke weed or not, you will encounter at some point an excited stoner eager to spill weed information. Now, you can save yourself the time of a lengthy weedsplain — because you know the way of the weed.
- 2019 October 8, Shomik Mukherjee, “Hosts of popular cannabis podcast returning to Savage Henry festival: ‘Great Moments in Weed History’ will tape live in Eureka”, in Times-Standard[2], archived from the original on December 6, 2022:
- “One of the great tragedies of cannabis advocacy is that legal cannabis is worse than the black market days,” Saeed said. “It’s something that should have been a conduit for creating a more respectful, empathetic marketplace.” Both co-hosts lamented the plight of small-farm growers in an era of high regulatory fees. The legal market is a rare intersection between cannabis and capitalism, and the former must transform the latter for prohibition to truly end, Bienenstock said. In the meantime, Saturday’s live discussion won’t relate to the Emerald Triangle — “I’m not trying to come up here and ‘weedsplain’ to Humboldt about Humboldt,” Bienenstock laughed.
- (Can we date this quote?), Frank Neufeld, “Cannabis 2.0: Combat Weedsplaining”, in NeufeldDesigns.com[3], archived from the original on February 21, 2023:
- Weedsplain [wi•d•splein] v. – to explain in an over-confident manner cannabis-related topics based on opinion, not fact.