marplot
/ˈmɑːplɒt/noun
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..
adjective
That spoils or defeats a plot or hinders an undertaking. Now rare.
Origin
Early 18th century; earliest use found in Susanna Centilivre (bap. 1664, d. 1723), playwright and actress. From mar- + plot.
- handle dish
- handleless
- hand lens
- handle (or treat) someone/thing with kid gloves
- handler
- handless
- hand letter
- hand-lettered
- hand lettering
- Handley Page, Frederick
- hand-line
- handline
- hand-liner
- handling charge
- rough-textured
- rough timber
- rough tongue
- rough-tongued
- rough tonguing
- rough-towel
- rough trade
- rough-tree
- rough-tree rail
- rough trot
- rough-up