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PRONUNCIATION:

(MAHR-plot)

MEANING:

noun: A meddlesome person who spoils a plan by interference.

ETYMOLOGY:

After Marplot, the titular character in the 1709 play The Busy Body by Susannah Centlivre (1669-1723). Marplot means well and tries to help only to get in the way of others and foul things up. Earliest documented use: 1709.

USAGE:

“And if Ben tried to say they were surely now all past the age for such folly, the others would accuse him of being a marplot.”
Annie Burrows; A Scandal at Midnight; Harlequin; 2021.

See more usage examples of marplot in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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