Sunday, 19 May 2019

Beaut words: Marplot

marplot
[mahr-plot]
noun
1. a person who mars or defeats a plot, design, or project by meddling.
First recorded in 1700-10

I'm sorry to be such a marplot, but you can take it out in quizzing me afterI'm gone.
Rose in Bloom Louisa May Alcott


marplot, an officious bungler, who spoils everything he interferes with.
The Slang Dictionary John Camden Hotten


Our only marplot has been laid by the heels at the very nick of time.
Cripps, the CarrierR. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

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