| 释义 |
marplot, n. and a.|ˈmɑːplɒt|
[See mar-.]
A. n. One who mars or defeats a plot or design by officious interference, or hinders the success of any undertaking. Said also of things.
1708S. Centlivre Busie Body Dram. Pers., Marplot. 1824Lady Granville Lett. May (1894) I. 295 What a marplot anxiety is. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xxxii, 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?
B. adj. That mars or defeats a plot or design.
1850Kinglake 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. |