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- adjective
Sulky orwhining . - adjective Non-co-operative, bad
tempered orterse in communication.
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Examples
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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.
March 28th, 2008 kisobel 2008
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I'd already told her about "mardy", which she really liked and started to employ at every opportunity.
townx - Comments 2010
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I'd already told her about "mardy", which she really liked and started to employ at every opportunity.
townx - Comments 2009
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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.
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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.
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Paul came home this evening and said "You're horny ... and mardy ... you must be due on," which of course is absolutely right.
March 28th, 2008 kisobel 2008
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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).
Monkey Business 2009
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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.”
Archive 2008-06-01 Push Jelly 2008
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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.”
News Round Up Push Jelly 2008
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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.
yarb commented on the word mardy
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."
December 16, 2008
sarra commented on the word mardy
also appears in the construction mardy-arse(d) (not to be confused with mardi gras)
December 16, 2008
yarb commented on the word mardy
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.
December 16, 2008
sionnach commented on the word mardy
Obstreperous, surely?
December 16, 2008
yarb commented on the word mardy
Of course ;)
Although 6 wordies list obstreporous.
December 16, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word mardy
I have it on good authority that yarb is a mardy-arsed cow.
December 16, 2008
reesetee commented on the word mardy
*suddenly understands c_b's comment*
December 16, 2008
kalayzich commented on the word mardy
mardy-arse n. derogatory a spoilt, pampered, or cowardly person.
1977 Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. Dec. 16/1 Mardy-arse, spoilt child.
1990 Sunday Correspondent 8 Apr. 18/4 Some probably feared being labelled ‘mardy arses’—Mancunian for softies.
April 19, 2015
fuzzbomb commented on the word mardy
Mardybum is another variant. Popularized by the Arctic Monkeys song, which is gash.
January 31, 2020