{"senses": [{"examples": [{"text": "'Never shall it be said of me that I'm an addle-plot, I promise you! I collect that you are going to visit a friend, or perhaps a relation?'", "ref": "2008, Georgette Heyer, Lady of Quality, page 13:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[42, 52]]}, {"text": "... fash bats and sharpering-omis were after us, those evil eagle-eeked addle-plots who cruised the city.", "ref": "2023, Richard Milward, Man-Eating Typewriter, page 38:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[72, 83]]}], "categories": ["English compound terms", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English idioms", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms with archaic senses", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries"], "links": [["spoilsport", "spoilsport#English"], ["ruin", "ruin#English"], ["other", "other#English"], ["plan", "plan#English"], ["enjoyment", "enjoyment#English"], ["something", "something#English"]], "raw_glosses": ["(archaic, idiomatic) Synonym of spoilsport, one who ruins other's plans or enjoyment of something."], "glosses": ["Synonym of spoilsport, one who ruins other's plans or enjoyment of something."], "tags": ["archaic", "idiomatic"], "synonyms": [{"word": "spoilsport", "tags": ["synonym", "synonym-of"]}, {"word": "one who ruins other's plans or enjoyment of something", "tags": ["synonym", "synonym-of"]}], "wikipedia": ["Love for Money", "Thomas d'Urfey"]}], "pos": "noun", "head_templates": [{"name": "en-noun", "args": {}, "expansion": "addle-plot (plural addle-plots)"}], "forms": [{"form": "addle-plots", "tags": ["plural"]}, {"form": "addleplot", "tags": ["alternative"]}], "etymology_text": "From addle (“to muddle, to ruin”) + plot (“plan”). In earliest use as a character name in Love for Money by Thomas d'Urfey in 1691. Compare marplot.", "etymology_templates": [{"name": "compound", "args": {"1": "en", "2": "addle", "3": "plot", "t1": "to muddle, to ruin", "t2": "plan"}, "expansion": "addle (“to muddle, to ruin”) + plot (“plan”)"}], "word": "addle-plot", "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en"}