# person from Porlock

> English word · Noun

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

## 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.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/person-from-porlock