Crossword clues for marplot
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marplot \Mar"plot`\, n. One who, by his officious interference, mars or frustrates a design or plot.
Wiktionary
n. A meddlesome person whose activity interferes with the plans of others. (from 18th c.)
Usage examples of "marplot".
I'm sorry to be such a marplot, but you can take it out in quizzing me after I'm gone.
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.
Selim, the lengthy, the boaster and marplot, who had been so long with the Reis Effendina waiting to join me, begged so hard to go with me this time that I could not refuse, and he, with Ben Nil, a Negro called Agadi, whom the Reis had given me for interpreter in case we came upon any native settlements, and a force of "Asaker" sufficient to hold Ibn Asl at bay till the ship should come up if we met him, constituted my little army.
He promised, or half promised, but when he reflected that in almost every case he would find a house full of fellow-guests, to whose pursuits he would have to conform, and that if he rambled away with a valued duodecimo in his pocket to spend the morning alone in the woods, he would be denounced as a marplot and a selfish brute, he felt no great desire to pay visits.