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I first heard ''Mardy'' or ''Mard'' when my son came home from Mountain Biking, and said that his friend ''had been in a right Mard'' and I asked for a meaning of the word. Son said it meant ''fed up'' or ''moany'' and I thought at first it was a Welsh word, as the Welsh town Maerdy is not far from Bristol.
Mardy is a great word, and a young child that grizzles a lot was termed ''Mardy Martha'',which sums up the grizzly, whiny way of children who grind on just for the sake of it, hour after hour. A form of noisy sulking,[ if that is possible].
Mardy definitely doesn't mean ''Naughty'', and ''Angry'' is too strong a word to describe it, but ''whiny petulance'' sums it up perfectly.
Adults can be Mardy, of both sexes.
Evidently it is a dialect word, hailing from the Midlands, and Staffordshire,which makes sense, as the first person I know who uses it regularly has aMidlands/Yorkshire Wife.
the word is so useful, and is spreading in Bristol.

It's a great word, isn't it.

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