Buttinsky vs Marplot - What's the difference?
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(informal, derisive) One who is prone to butt in, interrupt, or get involved where (s)he is not welcome.
A meddlesome person whose activity interferes with the plans of others.
* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter XI
*:“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.”
*2012 , (Michael Burleigh), ‘Keeping the Flame Alive’, Literary Review , 402:
*:Unthinking Anglo-Saxons regard him as a Gallic marplot , rather than the great twentieth-century statesman he was – certainly the greatest Frenchman since Napoleon.
As nouns the difference between buttinsky and marplot
is that buttinsky is one who is prone to butt in, interrupt, or get involved where (s)he is not welcome while marplot is a meddlesome person whose activity interferes with the plans of others.buttinsky
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Alternative forms
* buttinskiNoun
(en-noun)- I wish I had never met that nosy buttinsky !
