marplotn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈmɑːplɒt/, U.S.

/ˈmɑrˌplɑt/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mar- comb. form, plot n.

Etymology: < mar- comb. form + plot n. For a similar earlier formation as the name of a character in a play (see quot. 1709 at sense A.) compare the name of the eponymous protagonist of Sir Martin Mar-all, a play by Dryden and William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle (1668).

A. n.

A person who or (occasionally) a thing which spoils a plot or hinders the success of any undertaking.In early use allusively as a personification.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > hindrance by interference > one who or that which

interloper1670

marplot1709

1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body Dram. Pers. Marplot.

1723 R. Steele (title) The censor censured; or, The conscious lovers examin'd: in a dialogue between Sir Dicky Marplot and Jack Freeman.

1765 J. Otis Vindic. Brit. Colonies 21 His employers on either side the atlantic should discard him as a meer Sir Martyn Marplot.

1795 H. Cowley Town before You v. 87 What Tippy! I'm a bit of a Marplot here... This comes of entrusting your friends by halves.

1824 Countess Granville Let. May (1894) I. 295 What a marplot anxiety is.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iv. xxxii. 321 But what is the use of my taking the vows and settling everything as it should be, if that marplot Hans comes and upsets it all?

1880 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea (ed. 4) VI. ix. 380 In future campaigns the lieges shall not be the marplots they were in the days of Lord Raglan.

1915 F. T. Woodington (title) Fate the marplot.

1940 Amer. Hist. Rev. 45 343 Colonel Nicholas was a meddler and a marplot with a genius for intrigue.

1978 Economist (Nexis) 25 Nov. 123 Following in the footsteps of such marplots, Marxists, Maoists or malignants as the Lords Robbins and Bridges.

1982 Time (Nexis) 27 Dec. 12 Donald Nickles of Oklahoma and Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire..teamed with veteran marplot Jesse Helms of North Carolina to filibuster the measure to death's door.

2008 W. B. Spanos H. Melville & Amer. Calling Notes 264 He [sc. Cervantes] is compelled to invoke ‘the enchanter’, who like the diabolos—the ‘marplot’—of the Christian narrative, is the ultimate Other of the Logos.

B. adj. (attributive).

That spoils or defeats a plot or hinders an undertaking. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [adjective] > hindering by interfering

interventing1593

marplot1824

1824 Lancet 10 Apr. 64/1 He casts a scowling glance upon the incorrigible mar-plot man.

1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xxviii. 392 Beyond the tender mercies of meddling, marplot fortune.

1880 in A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea VI. ix. 230 There were some of his fellow-countrymen..whose marplot disclosures seemed likely to bring down..a new onslaught of Russian masses.

1899 M. P. W. Smith Young Puritans in Captivity xxii. 318 'T is thought some marplot royalist, shrewdly mistrusting who the valiant Angel of Hadley might be,..informed the king.

2006 A. Birrell Chinese Myth & Culture iii. 58 Latter Han author, Wang Ch'ung (ad 27-100) mythopoeically grafted the myth of Nü Kua's repair of the cosmos to the myth of the marplot Kung Kung's cosmic blunder.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	marplot
释义	marplotn.adj. Brit. /ˈmɑːplɒt/, U.S. /ˈmɑrˌplɑt/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mar- comb. form, plot n. Etymology: < mar- comb. form + plot n. For a similar earlier formation as the name of a character in a play (see quot. 1709 at sense A.) compare the name of the eponymous protagonist of Sir Martin Mar-all, a play by Dryden and William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle (1668). A. n. A person who or (occasionally) a thing which spoils a plot or hinders the success of any undertaking.In early use allusively as a personification. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > hindrance by interference > one who or that which interloper1670 marplot1709 1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body Dram. Pers. Marplot. 1723 R. Steele (title) The censor censured; or, The conscious lovers examin'd: in a dialogue between Sir Dicky Marplot and Jack Freeman. 1765 J. Otis Vindic. Brit. Colonies 21 His employers on either side the atlantic should discard him as a meer Sir Martyn Marplot. 1795 H. Cowley Town before You v. 87 What Tippy! I'm a bit of a Marplot here... This comes of entrusting your friends by halves. 1824 Countess Granville Let. May (1894) I. 295 What a marplot anxiety is. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iv. xxxii. 321 But what is the use of my taking the vows and settling everything as it should be, if that marplot Hans comes and upsets it all? 1880 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea (ed. 4) VI. ix. 380 In future campaigns the lieges shall not be the marplots they were in the days of Lord Raglan. 1915 F. T. Woodington (title) Fate the marplot. 1940 Amer. Hist. Rev. 45 343 Colonel Nicholas was a meddler and a marplot with a genius for intrigue. 1978 Economist (Nexis) 25 Nov. 123 Following in the footsteps of such marplots, Marxists, Maoists or malignants as the Lords Robbins and Bridges. 1982 Time (Nexis) 27 Dec. 12 Donald Nickles of Oklahoma and Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire..teamed with veteran marplot Jesse Helms of North Carolina to filibuster the measure to death's door. 2008 W. B. Spanos H. Melville & Amer. Calling Notes 264 He [sc. Cervantes] is compelled to invoke ‘the enchanter’, who like the diabolos—the ‘marplot’—of the Christian narrative, is the ultimate Other of the Logos. B. adj. (attributive). That spoils or defeats a plot or hinders an undertaking. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [adjective] > hindering by interfering interventing1593 marplot1824 1824 Lancet 10 Apr. 64/1 He casts a scowling glance upon the incorrigible mar-plot man. 1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xxviii. 392 Beyond the tender mercies of meddling, marplot fortune. 1880 in A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea VI. ix. 230 There were some of his fellow-countrymen..whose marplot disclosures seemed likely to bring down..a new onslaught of Russian masses. 1899 M. P. W. Smith Young Puritans in Captivity xxii. 318 'T is thought some marplot royalist, shrewdly mistrusting who the valiant Angel of Hadley might be,..informed the king. 2006 A. Birrell Chinese Myth & Culture iii. 58 Latter Han author, Wang Ch'ung (ad 27-100) mythopoeically grafted the myth of Nü Kua's repair of the cosmos to the myth of the marplot Kung Kung's cosmic blunder. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1709
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