Marplot

[Zoning Goddess]

My office-mate and I discovered this word today and it just tickled us:

Marplot: A stupid, officious meddler whose interference spoils the success of an undertaking (After Marplot, a character in The Busy Body, a play by Susanna Centlivre (1667-1723)).

Now we have a new code word for our most infamous "citizen activists" who are actually marplots.

 

[Trail Nazi]

I love it!! I have just passed the word around to those who need it here. Excellent!

 

[michaelskis]

Hmmm How can I get that word into the zoning code?

 

[sisterceleste]

Can this word be an adjective as in marplot zealot????????????????

 

[Maister]

Can this word be an adjective as in marplot zealot????????????????

or a zealous marplot?.......I like the sound of the word. Has a nice ring.

 

[Budgie]

I'll use it in a sentence today. I love baffling people with vocabulary. Half the time they don't know whether to smile or be offended.

I like "fop" as well. I saw that word in "The Mill on the Floss" by George Eliot and use it in conversation at least once a week.

 

[donk]

I see another never ending thread coming up.

Real words, not in common usage that are not obscene or crude that are great to insult or describe a person. There must be a single word to describe that sentence.