diff --git a/man/man8/bridge.8 b/man/man8/bridge.8
index 72210f62..13c46386 100644
--- a/man/man8/bridge.8
+++ b/man/man8/bridge.8
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ Controls whether a given port will sync MAC addresses learned on device port to
 bridge FDB.
 
 .TP
-.BR "flooding on " or " flooding off "
+.BR "flood on " or " flood off "
 Controls whether a given port will flood unicast traffic for which there is no FDB entry. By default this flag is on.
 
 .TP
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ switch.
 
 .TP
 .BR "mcast_flood on " or " mcast_flood off "
-Controls whether a given port will be flooded with multicast traffic for which there is no MDB entry. By default this flag is on.
+Controls whether a given port will flood multicast traffic for which there is no MDB entry. By default this flag is on.
 
 .TP
 .BR "neigh_suppress on " or " neigh_suppress off "
diff --git a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
index 73d37c19..6f31453c 100644
--- a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
+++ b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
@@ -2183,7 +2183,7 @@ queries.
 option above.
 
 .BR mcast_flood " { " on " | " off " }"
-- controls whether a given port will be flooded with multicast traffic for which there is no MDB entry.
+- controls whether a given port will flood multicast traffic for which there is no MDB entry.
 
 .BI group_fwd_mask " MASK "
 - set the group forward mask. This is the bitmask that is applied to decide whether to forward incoming frames destined to link-local addresses, ie addresses of the form 01:80:C2:00:00:0X (defaults to 0, ie the bridge does not forward any link-local frames coming on this port).