What is Malcthomp?
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An individual who has been entrusted to manage a project but does so by merely forwarding emails to third parties asking them to do the work.
"He's such a malcthomp - he spends the morning just clicking the forward button on Microsoft Outlook then spends the afternoon in the garden while we do the work."
Believed to be scottish in origin from the Nairn region, although in the Forth Valley area referred to as a 'malcy'
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