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marplot

noun
/ˈmɑːplɒt/UK/ˈmɑɹplɑt/US

Etymology

From mar (“to spoil, to ruin”) + plot (“plan”). In earliest use as a character name in The Busie Body, by Susanna Centlivre, in 1709. Compare addle-plot.

  1. inherited from *plataz✻
  2. inherited from plot
  3. inherited from plot
  4. compounded as marplot — “mar + plot”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of spoilsport, one who ruins other's plans or enjoyment of something.

    • “The old marplot has discovered the baby,” Monica whispered. “I suppose it cried and woke him up, and now he thinks he's witness to a miracle.”
    • Unthinking Anglo-Saxons regard him as a Gallic marplot, rather than the great twentieth-century statesman he was – certainly the greatest Frenchman since Napoleon.

  2. Ruining a plan, interfering, spoilsport.

    • Let us argue the point with this pert, unruly, marplot conscience of mine…

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA