PLOT, PLOTTER, PLOTTING
ADJECTIVES
1225 ► QUAINT cunning, crafty, given to scheming or plotting → obs.
1911 ► BOGGIE plotting in secret → Sc. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1303 ► WANLACE a crafty device, a plot → obs.
1535 ► DRIFT a scheme, plot, design → obs.
1549 ► MACHINATION the act or process of contriving or planning; contrivance, intrigue, plotting; an intrigue, plot, scheme
1571 ► PACK a private or clandestine arrangement, pact, or compact; a secret or underhand design agreed upon by two or more persons; a plot, conspiracy, intrigue → obs.
E17.. ► CABAL a secret intrigue; a conspiracy; petty plotting → arch.
1900 ► FRAME-UP a (criminal) conspiracy or plot → sl. orig. US
1911 ► FRAME a (criminal) conspiracy or plot → sl. orig. US
NOUNS, PERSON
1611 ► MACHINATOR one who contrives or schemes; a contriver, intriguer, plotter, schemer; usually in a bad sense
1642 ► CABALIST → CABBALIST one who cabals, or adheres to any cabal; a secret intriguer or plotter; a conspirator → obs.
1771 ► PACKER a confederate in a fraudulent design; a conspirator, a plotter → obs.
1832 ► MOUDIEWARP an underhand person; a sneak, a plotter, a spy → Sc.
1832 ► MOUDIEWORT an underhand person; a sneak, a plotter, a spy → Sc.
1832 ► MOULDWARP an underhand person; a sneak, a plotter, a spy → Sc.
1895 ► SAND-BAGGER one who plots for the purpose of overreaching and defrauding unsuspecting persons → (Bk.)
1940 ► ANGLE-SHOOTER a schemer, a plotter → US sl.
VERBS
1450 ► MACHINE to contrive, to plot; to devise schemes (against a person) → obs.
1529 ► PACK to enter into a private arrangement; to agree in a secret or underhand design; to plot, to conspire, to scheme, to intrigue → obs.
1590 ► PACK to be an accomplice or confederate in a plot → obs.
1600 ► MACHINATE to lay plots; to intrigue; to scheme; to contrive; to plot; to plan
1781 ► PATTISH to plot or contrive together → Eng. dial. obs.
1954 ► SHOOT AN ANGLE to scheme; to plot → Amer. sl.
1962 ► SHOOT THE ANGLES to scheme, to plot → Amer. sl.
2006 ► FANIGLE → FINAGLE to plot and plan; to conspire; to arrange something → US sl. (Bk.)