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单词 mardy
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Definition of mardy in English:

mardy

adjectivemardiest, mardier ˈmɑːdi
Northern English
  • Sulky; moody.

    you can get all mardy about it if you like
    Example sentencesExamples
    • And - worse - they also indirectly made us stay up most of the night watching Celebrity Big Brother, which put us in a right mardy mood yesterday.
    • On the coach from Victoria however I did get to meet some most delightful people upon the national express coaches and a rather mardy newspaper seller, who didn't want to talk about any of the days big news stories - oh well!
    • Besides, my youngest often wears a Hoodie and occasionally a baseball cap; and despite being a typical mardy teenager is pretty harmless.
    • And then someone was a right mardy cow on the way home.
    • Like a mardy teenager, they bang on about how everything that doesn't fit in with their very narrow world view as ‘unfair’.
    Synonyms
    angry, annoyed, irate, irritated, in a bad mood, peeved, vexed, upset, irked, piqued, out of humour, put out, displeased, galled, resentful

Origin

Early 20th century: from dialect mard 'spoilt' (describing a child), alteration of marred (see mar).

Rhymes

cadi, cardy, Guardi, Hardie, hardy, lardy, Mahdi, Saadi, samadhi, tardy, Yardie
 
 
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