Meaning of Marplot | Babel Free

Definitions

A meddlesome person whose activity interferes with the plans of others.

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Examples

““The old marplot has discovered the baby,” Monica whispered. “I suppose it cried and woke him up, and now he thinks he's witness to a miracle.””

“Unthinking Anglo-Saxons regard him as a Gallic marplot, rather than the great twentieth-century statesman he was – certainly the greatest Frenchman since Napoleon.”

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