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mardy

[ mahr-dee ]
/ ˈmɑr di /
British Dialect
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adjective, mar·di·er, mar·di·est.

grumpy or moody; sulky: She's behaving like a typical mardy teenager, refusing to tell us what's wrong.

noun

a grumpy mood; a sulk: He's a good old chap, but he sometimes comes home in a mardy after stopping at the pub.

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Origin of mardy

< British dialect mard ‘spoiled; spoiled child’ (alteration of marred, past tense of mar) + -y1

Words nearby mardy

Marcus Gunn's sign, Marcy, Mar del Plata, Mardi Gras, Marduk, mardy, mare, Mare Acidalium, Mare Australe, Mare Boreum, Mare Chronium
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British Dictionary definitions for mardy

mardy
/ (ˈmɑːdɪ) /

adjective dialect

(of a child) spoilt
irritable

Word Origin for mardy

from marred, past participle of mar
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