MARPLOT

Definition: MARPLOT

MARPLOT

Noun

1. One who, by his officious /nterference, mars or frustrates a design or plot.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "MARPLOT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Marplot A silly, cowardly, inquisitive Paul Pry, in The Busybody, by Mrs. Centlivre. H. Woodward's great part. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	MARPLOT. A spoil sport. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Bungler	Noun: bungler; blunderer, blunderhead; marplot, fumbler, lubber, duffer, dauber, stick; bad hand, poor hand, poor shot; butterfingers.
Evil doer	Noun: evil doer, evil worker; wrongdoer; mischief-maker, marplot; oppressor, tyrant; destroyer, Vandal; iconoclast.
Hindrance	Damper, wet blanket, hinderer, marplot, killjoy; party pooper; party crasher, interloper.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: MARPLOT

Specialty definitions using "MARPLOT": MARPLOT. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The Marplot Marriage (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "MARPLOT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		planprishës. (various references)

Bulgarian		човек който се бърка, човек който осуетява планове. (various references)

German		Störenfried (molester, trouble maker, troublemaker). (various references)

Hungarian		kerékkötõ (skid, trig). (various references)

Italian		guastafeste (damper, killjoy, killjoys, skeleton at the feast, spoilsport, wet blanket). (various references)

Pig Latin		arplotmay

Portuguese		corsário (caper, corsair, pirate, privateering, raider, rover). (various references)

Romanian		piedicã (balk, bar, brake, check, clog, cumber, delay, difficulty, drag, drawback, embargo, encumbrance, fetter, hindrance, hitch, hold back, impediment, interference, jog, lock, objection, obstacle, obstruction, pull back, sear, set back, sprag, stay, stop, stopper, stopple, stumbling-bloc, trammel, traverse, trigger), obstacol (bar, barrier, check, clog, cumber, delay, dike, drag, drawback, encumbrance, entanglement, hazard, hindrance, hitch, hold back, hurdle, impediment, interference, jog, leap, object, obstacle, obstruction, rub, snag, stay), nepoftit (intruder, intrusive, intrusively, outsider, uninvited, unwelcome, unwished), încurcã-lume (fumbler). (various references)

Russian		помеха (clog, crab, disturber, drag, drawback, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, hitch, impediment, interference, interruption, jog, let, noise, obstacle, preclusion, retardation, retardment, rub, strays, trammel). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		onaj koji kvari poduhvat. (various references)

Spanish		obstáculo (balk, bar, barrier, baulk, block, blockage, cave, cramps, cumber, drag, handicap, hazard, hindrance, hitch, hurdle, impediment, let, objection, obstacle, obstruction, preventer, pullback, screen, trouble, vapor barrier). (various references)

Turkish		girişimi bozan kimse. (various references)

Ukranian		перешкода (back-set, baffle, balk, bar, barricade, barrier, block, bridle, check, clog, contrariety, countercheck, cramp, cumber, dike, disability, discouragement, drawback, dyke, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, hitch, hold back, interference, leap, nuisance, obex, objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, occlusor, preclusion, pullback, stop, trammels, traverse, wall). (various references)

Vietnamese		kẻ hay l� m sai, kẻ hay l� m hỏng việc người khác, kẻ hay l� m bậy. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "MARPLOT": marplots. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"MARPLOT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ar-lott, marlo, marlpot, Marpol, Morflot. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-l-m-o-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: mortal, patrol, portal.
	-2 letters: amort, aport, molar, moral, parol, polar, tolar, tramp, tromp.
	-3 letters: alto, atom, atop, lamp, loam, lota, malt, marl, mart, moat, mola, molt, mora, mort, opal, oral, palm, part, plat, plot, port, pram, prao, prat, proa, prom, ramp, rapt, rato, roam, romp, rota, rotl, tamp, taro, tarp, tola, tora, tram.
	Words containing the letters "a-l-m-o-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: marplots, platform, temporal.
	+2 letters: atemporal, patrolman, patrolmen, platforms, temporals.
	+3 letters: extemporal, importable, laparotomy, multipolar, petrolatum, photomural, poultryman, promotable, promulgate, prostomial, protonemal, protoplasm, temporally, trampoline, treponemal.
	+4 letters: caprolactam, chromoplast, hypothermal, importantly, lepromatous, malapropist, manipulator, multiparous, nontemporal, paramountly, pastoralism, patelliform, patrimonial, peristomial, petrolatums, photomurals, polarimeter, polarimetry, postmarital, primatology, problematic, promotional, promulgated, promulgates, promulgator, prothalamia, prothallium, protoplasms, proximately, sportsmanly, temporality, temporalize, temporarily, trampoliner, trampolines.
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