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marplot

[ mahr-plot ]

noun

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


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˜yÐÄvlog 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
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“Yes, of course. Come, Demi,” and Meg led her son away, feeling a strong desire to spank the little marplot who hopped beside her, laboring under the delusion that the bribe was to be administered as soon as they reached the nursery.

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And where, all this time, was she, the unfortunate cause of all his misery, and the most unintentional marplot in this history?

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Therefore the Prince of Wales must be the very Marplot or L'Etourdi of princes, if he cannot contrive to make himself endurable to a people who will bear so much rather than be at the trouble of a change.

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Probably the disturbing, distracting vein of unconquerable levity so conspicuous in the character of his father, is the marplot of the son's career, too.

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“Get this young marplot out of here and let no more of his ilk in again.”

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