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Sulky; moody; in a bad mood. Often about children. "He's gone mardy" = "he's sulking." Yorkshire/Midlands.
"Don't be a mardy bum."
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Non-cooperative, bad-tempered or terse in communication; grumpy.
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A sulky, whiny mood; a fit of petulance.
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- mard80%
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.
- moody78%
Sulky or depressed.
- maungy74%
(British, Yorkshire, especially of a child) Sulky, bad-tempered or peevish.