mard
A Yorkshire dialect verb meaning to cosset or spoil a child — to pamper excessively.
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A Yorkshire dialect verb meaning to cosset or spoil a child — to pamper excessively. Also used as a noun for an irritable mood or sulk. A 'mard' can also be a person considered soft or feeble (a mardy). 'Mardy' — the adjective form — is the more widely known word, immortalized in the Arctic Monkeys song 'Mardy Bum.' The cluster of related forms is distinctly East Midlands/Yorkshire in character.
Her mum had marded her rotten and now she couldn't handle the slightest bit of discomfort.
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An irritable mood.
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(Yorkshire) To cosset (a child).
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- mardy80%
Sulky; moody; in a bad mood. Often about children. "He's gone mardy" = "he's sulking." Yorkshire/Midlands.
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(UK, dialect, derogatory) A person who whines and complains a lot.
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A sulky, whiny mood; a fit of petulance.
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(UK, dialect, derogatory) A sissy; an effeminate person.