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Buttinsky vs Marplot - What's the difference?

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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

English

Alternative forms

* buttinski

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (informal, derisive) One who is prone to butt in, interrupt, or get involved where (s)he is not welcome.
    • I wish I had never met that nosy buttinsky !

    Synonyms

    * (one prone to butt in ): busybody, backseat driver, kibitzer, meddler

    See also

    * gatecrasher, interloper, peeping tom, persona non grata, encroacher, nosy parker, marplot, intruder

    See also

    * butt in

    marplot

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    • See also

    * gatecrasher, interloper, peeping tom, persona non grata, encroacher, backseat driver, kibitzer, meddler, nosy parker, intruder, buttinsky, busybody, yenta