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marplot

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mar·plot  (märplt)
n.
An officious meddler whose interference compromises the success of an undertaking.

[After Marplot, a character in The Busy Body, a play by Susannah Centlivre (1669-1723).]


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A restless movement from Laurie suggested that his chair was not easy, or that he did not like the plan, and made the old man add hastily, "I don't mean to be a marplot or a burden.
To which Mrs Milvey replied, in her pleasantly emphatic way, 'Oh YES, for she IS such a marplot, Frank, and DOES worry so
('Which you haven't, you Marplot,' observed my aunt, in an indignant whisper.
 
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