Definitions
Etymologies
- Probably from marred + -y. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Apart from being premenstrual, the mardy is mostly due to the fact that I feel like I have failed to achieve very much in my life.”
“I'd already told her about "mardy", which she really liked and started to employ at every opportunity.”
“He then threw a mardy - as we say around here - and went off in a sulk claiming he had better things to do than post on the BBC blog.”
“Paul came home this evening and said "You're horny ... and mardy ... you must be due on," which of course is absolutely right.”
“Arctic Monkeys are a quintessentially British band, with songs infused with British slang, such as references to a "mardy bum" (a whiner) and the "icky man" (an ice-cream vendor).”
“Following the complaint made against real Madrid for tapping-up the cheating acquitted date-rapist Ronaldo, one-man strop factory Ferguson has decided to sue Gordon Strachan for “Being Scottish, a football manager and a mardy bugger.””
“During Celebrity Big Brother Jo has changed from a mardy old sourballs to a mardy old sourballs with a nifty side-career as a sneering racist sidekick.”
“I radiate positivity! but already Leo Sayer is fed up with not being the most famous person in the house, and he's turned into a right mardy wanker.”
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“World weary songs of boozy nights out in Sheffield, shared taxis home to Shire Green via Hillsborough, dreams of San Francisco, mardy girlfriends and the occasional run in with the police, sung in a distinctive Sheffield accent and backed with a stripped down pub rock style combo.”
“And – worse – they also indirectly made us stay up most of the night watching Celebrity Big Brother, which put us in a right mardy mood yesterday.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mardy’.
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Sheffield Dialect
Dialect words used in and around the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK.
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1401 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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British Cant & Slang, Old & New
Mostly, the cant words come from my reprint of Francis Grose's 1785 dictionary of 'The Vulgar Tongue', while the more modern slang has been found at various online sources, e.g. this online diction...
bog-standard, bumbaclot, brown trouser moment, bingo wings, bobfoc, babber, sweating, tantadlin tart, taplash, timber toe, tray trip, twiddle-diddles and 209 more...
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srboisvert's Words
couverture, poffertjes, naif, endermatic, prepense, aspic, otalgia, curettage,, florid, piffling, pillock, mow and 164 more...
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South Yorkshire medical terminology
For definitions see the source document.
"All the words and phrases included in this guide are those that have been used by patients during consultations and have been included to assi...winkle, wind pipe, willy, widgy, well, it's a nogg..., wee-wee, water, uncle sam, tuppence, tummy ache, trotters, tootsies and 123 more...
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dialect and oikolect
from Birmingham, the Black Country, and a few generations back on one side, Lancashire. Also
- deliberate mis-sayings and
- things which aren't localised, but relatively infrequent in...scraige, lummock, round the wrekin, mithering, daft ha'p'orth, caggy-handed, fizzog, mardy, kaylied, hotch up, cadge, yampy and 33 more...
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Reasons why I wish I were British
God I love British words, especially combined with that tasty accent of theirs...
bloke, buttocks, blimey, bloody hell, bobbie, chip shop, chuffed, liverpudlian, crikey, crumpet, daft, doss and 20 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for mardy.
reesetee *suddenly understands c_b's comment* Dec 16, 2008
chained_bear I have it on good authority that yarb is a mardy-arsed cow. Dec 16, 2008
yarb Of course ;)
Although 6 wordies list obstreporous. Dec 16, 2008
sionnach Obstreperous, surely? Dec 16, 2008
yarb Yes, adding "-arse(d)" to an adjective (usually ending in 'y' and with negative connotations) is a common construction which seems to be nothing but a linguistic tic; at least I don't think it alters the intensity of the adjective.
Adjectives commonly modified thus: lazy, scruffy, hairy. Dec 16, 2008
sarra also appears in the construction mardy-arse(d) (not to be confused with mardi gras) Dec 16, 2008
yarb adj. disgruntled, foul-tempered, stroppy, recalcitrant, obstreporous, cantankerous.
More commonly applied to females than males in my experience, particularly modifying cow.
e.g. "My boss has been a right mardy cow this week, I don't know what her problem is." Dec 16, 2008