English Explanatory Dictionary

person from Porlock

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One whose inconvenient interruption prevents the completion of something important.

Word forms

person from Porlock persons from Porlock people from Porlock

Etymology

In reference to an unwelcome visitor described by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as interrupting him during his composition of the poem Kubla Khan in 1797, and preventing its completion.

Synonyms

man from Porlock

Related words

porlock Porlockian
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