marplot

[ mahr-plot ]

noun

1. a person who mars or defeats a plot, design, or project by meddling.

Word History and Origins

Origin of marplot¹

First recorded in 1700–10; mar + plot. Marplot was a character in a farce, The Busie Body (1709), by Susanna Centlivre, circa1667–1723, English actress, poet, and playwright

Example Sentences

The fiend receive George of Douglas and thee too, thou born madcap and sworn marplot!

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For an interminable quarter of an hour the marplot jurist teased his captive.

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That guileless marplot offered a fair target for his rage against the world in general.

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Her usual fear of Otto as a marplot in her great designs was now swallowed up in a passing distrust of the designs themselves.

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You and this marplot of a girl, who hath spoiled a most feasible plan of ending the rebellion.

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