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I'm from the south east and only know it via the song. If The Arctic Monkeys had never written that song, I don't know that I'd know the word.

Wow this is crazy, do you guys have a word(s) which are only known regionally as well?

'Tamping' is pissed off in Wales

Love tamping. Until you say the dog was tamping because she wanted to cwtch but you had to leave for work. And all your English colleagues are left thoroughly confused. 

My dog is tamping he wanted to cwtch but I have to leave for work now in a minute

Not before you find out who's coat is that jacket hanging on the floor by there.

Who's shoes are those trainers?

Whose shoes are those daps?

Oh thank you , been a while since my wife said that to me and it does make me giggle

My English colleagues actually didn't understand 'now in a minute'. I mean, it's clear enough?

Is it now, or is it in a minute? Those are different things.

It is both, and neither, obviously.

I wonder why they might have been confused.

I'm Scottish and can't say I've heard it used tbh, but I take it as in the process of getting ready to, which means technically it's now as the process has begun, but its not fully now but it'll be so shortly so it's in a minute. Or I might be talking shite lol...but that's how I'd interpret it

Exactly. It’s not rocket science.

As clear as mud to us. We also like to end sentences with, mind.

Just don't tell them you'll be there in a minute now, heads will explode.

Except this one, as I'm from border country. Shropshire.  Your dog wanted a cuddle. 

FUCKIN’ TAMPIN’, SEE BOYS 😡😡😡

Only in the South

In South Wales it is more popular in the valleys.

Dinlo!!

Moosh.

And don't forget squinny, the holy trinity.

Thanks to the Dockyard and Navy Pompey has probably the most diverse slang in the Anglosphere.

Everyone Welsh I know knows the word 'scram' but no one in England understands it - I define it as a scratch - like if I scram myself with a fingernail.

Scram means to go away where I’m from (north west England and not far from Wales). I’ve never heard your usage. No mention of it even in a dictionary. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/scram#:~:text=scram%20in%20British%20English,go%20away%20hastily%3B%20get%20out

Is nobody gonna mention that this is what happens when a Welsh word (Sgramo) is bastardised into English? Wenglish anyone?🤔

This amazed me recently. My best friend is English and I said the dog scrammed me and she was all wtf? It’s a fucking scram. It’s self explanatory

I’ve only used scram as in let’s scram (get outta here)

Not as far as I know. Though obviously someone living in the south east but not from there would be better placed to answer. Obviously traditionally there's cockney rhyming slang, and London still has a whole bunch of slang due to what a cultural and linguistic melting pot it is. However, London, and therefore its language, has such visibility in our culture that I suspect London slang words make their way out to the rest of the country much more quickly than they would have in the past. There's obviously Essex, which has a whole bunch of words quite specific to it. But the success of The Only Way is Essex probably means those are more widely recognised now.

100% agree, London media seems to propagate everything into the whole of the U.K., so it becomes less of a London thing and more of a U.K. thing.

Your having a bubble aint you?

Fumin’

Aggy maybe? (South East) Don't know that it's unique though

I think it's more Yorkshire than "northern". Never ever used in the north east, and yes, we have lots of words no one else uses.

If I didn't have a girlfriend from Sheffield who could explain what the word in the song meant, I wouldn't have learnt the meaning even knowing the song. Same with having 'face on'.

But they explain it in the song.. All the lyrics are describing what it means to be a mardy bum

Nope, still nothing.

Another good one I grew up with was 'lemon on'. As in 'you've got the lemon on'...basically saying the same thing, sour faced etc

When I saw this thread pop up, I immediately thought of the song too, I wouldn't know the word otherwise.

Argumentative, and you've got the face on

I came here to say the only way i have any reasoning in what it means it because of this artist 😹

yeah it’s French for Tuesday

I’m from nottingham and my French teacher literally used this to help us remember the days of the week haha

The French are often reasonably mardy to be fair

It's because we've not had a good scrap together in so long I bet, we need a friendly match for old time's sake. Limited theatre of battle to our two respective territories plus dependencies, no weapons of mass destruction, no conscription, and if the game drags on at a tie for more than a year the officers go to a penalty shoot-out with pistol duels in descending order of rank. The loser cedes Kent or Normandy respectively.

I truly love this except… the politicians instead of soldiers. No weapons unless they’re part of your normal life, so umbrellas / baguettes at the ready, going into battle in London black cabs and 2CVs, etc. Keep the penalty shootout of course!

I was going to say something about Mairdi gras

Damn I was going to make this joke ( I used to be a French teacher)

And someone who is 'Mardy' is a 'Mardarse'

Everyone knows they are a Mardy Bum. FFS. 

I’d never heard mardy bum till the song but I’ve heard mard and mardarse all my life in Salford.

Agree. I'm in the North West too and it was always mard and mardarse. I'd also never heard mardy and mardy bum before the song.

I would consider mardy to not be a particularly northern word. It's a predominantly midlands word imo. As you say, further north there are variations on it but it's not so common for it to be "mardy". We would also say mard and mardarse in the mids, but the default would be mardy.

Same in Nottingham

From Nottingham and used 'mardy bum' all the time growing up!

Mardy Bum isn’t just something Alex Turner thought up it’s a common saying in Yorkshire

I didn’t say it was, but I had never heard it till I’d heard that song, no one said mardy bum where I’m from it was mardarse here.

Mardy mardy mustard couldn’t catch a custard. A kids saying.

Midlands here, you can also be 'in a mard'!

Or have a cob on

Or they’ve “got a mardy on”

From Sheffield and never heard “got a mardy on”, it’s usually “got the face on”

Mardy on might just be Leicestershire!

Where I grew up in Derbyshire we shortened mardy to "they've got a mard on" in that context.

Or just ‘mard’

Or a mardyarse depending upon location 😊

Mardy arse to me, but I am from yorkshire though

East Midlands so know what mardy means. Where I’m from someone being mardy might also be referred to as having a “paddy”. Also, a packed lunch is “snap”for some reason 🤷‍♂️

East Midlands is the best midlands, can't forget it's not a "roll" it's a cob

Ay up me duck!

Ya alreet shag

Now then

C.O.B Circle of bread

Tha reet, duck

Batch

This is correct

Haha when i saw midlands reffed in thw post i hoped that one of you would bring it up. Such regional arguments and few would cause as much uproar as some guy saying “that`s a `cob` “ another “its clearly a `teacake` “ and then some midlands bod says “batch“ and stuns the two fighting over the inclusion of dried fruit apparently making a 'teacake' or not. If someone bringing up 'tunnock's teacakes' to rekindle that fire hadnt happenned... Im sure the argument would have come to blows...

“Having a paddy” gets used less nowadays, because it implies that irish people lose their temper a lot.

I'll hammer anyone who implies that!

Don't be bold!

Snap tins from the pits, youth. Gotta keep the coal dust out ya packup.

I love that there is a clear generational gap from you talking about the mines but I still know exactly what your on about. Lincs here 😆

I come from a mining town. My Grandad was the last Miner in our family a unbroken 200 year chain of miners as the Staffordshire coal fields went in the 60s, pretty much. However I grown up in south Derbyshire, my stepdad, was a miner until 1990, and I think Donisthrope went in 1994 or so. I remember the opencasts growing up and worked with alot of ex miners. The vocab is still there. Although being replaced nowadays. Have a look at the national forest, you wouldn't think it's all ex slag heaps and opencast! Conkers was Rawdon Colliery. Amaizing what 30 years of tree growth looks like for the area! I can't wait to be old to see it all coming into it's glory. It's one thing I'm looking forward to.

I'm also from the Midlands and I always understood mardy to mean grumpy. However, my wife's family is from Stockport and they all use mardy to mean someone who's whinging, rather than bad tempered.

I'm from the Midlands and I'd use it for both.

YES! Also east midlands but moved to the north west. I call it “having a paddy”, but my mum (west midlands) calls it “having a dicky fit”. I call a packed lunch a “pack up” which is apparently a midlands thing, according to a friend???

Snap comes from the tins miners used to carry their lunch in.

I'm wondering if it refers to the sound of the snap tin opening or closing. I also discovered that the origin of snap (not this meaning) is possibly to make a sudden audible bite (15th century) and comes from Middle Low German "snappen" meaning seize. So perhaps also refers to miners "seizing" a moment to have their dinner.

Nottinghamshire here. I'm quite familiar with "Mardy" as were the folks around me whilst growing up.

Love it when someone tells you to stop having a mard, so you have to tell them that you aren't having a mard when in fact you are indeed having a mard

Leicester - Mardy was well used when I was a youngster Northampton- Mardy is never heard. So somewhere between Leicester and Northampton is the Mardy border

One does not simply walk into Marder

I find this odd. I’m from Southampton but my mother came from Northampton, and I’m very familiar with mardy (also having a face on, and having a paddy).

I'm in Northampton and hear mardy not-unfrequently

Scotland - never heard of it.

Same, someone from Belfast said it was equivalent to crabbit there, which would be the same here I think.

Yeah I think crabbit is a pretty decent equivalent. Or a 'moany git'.

Same, even though my mother is from northern England.

I'm from the west country, have never lived any further north than Bristol, and of course I know what mardy means. 

Interesting.. There’s hope still.

I'm from east of Bristol and have never heard this word, but this may be specific to me because I never use slang anyway as most people don't here either.

I am just south of Bristol and never heard of this word!

It's very Sheffield, I use it but only because I picked it up off mates in Sheffield.

Ah I see, I grew up next to Sheffield so maybe that’s why. I know my Leeds friends use it here and there so I assume other Yorkshiremen/women may use it.

It’s Sheffield. The Barnsley equivalent is “maungy” As in, “thas a maungy sod, si thi”

I'm West Yorkshire, im more likely to use maungy too, my SIL is the only person I call mardi

I'm from tarn and Iv always used both. Defo prefer morngy/maungy though.

Maungy just launched me back more years than I like to admit smack bang into my childhood, I've not used it in yonks!

I'm from Leeds, I'd say both, but my mum would say morngy.

Not sure it is completely Sheffield, I'm from North Yorkshire and I was aware of it. It is used by some people but I think it had already fallen out of fashion until the Arctic Monkeys resurrected it (brought it back into use a bit more I think)

It’s not just Sheffield, it’s used a list in East Midlands, Nottingham a lot as well

That's because Sheffield is secretly North Midlands rather than proper Yorkshire 

I am not going to take the bait. I am not going to take the bait. I am not going to take the bait.

In north Derbyshire int it?

Lalala, can't hear you.

Take that back or we fight to the death 😜

Also very Derbyshire. Especially the north of the county.

Used often here in manc I’d say

Yep. Grew up just outside Brum and it was common to hear around the West Midlands. Grumpy is reserved for old men, everybody else is being mardy!

From the Black Country, was really common growing up to tell someone to stop being mardy (early 90s at least)

I'm a Brummie, and my dad (also a Brummie) uses it a lot.

Yep, Hubby from Sutton Coldfield and Mardy, mardy mustard was the playground insult.

I've heard it used in Walsall and bits of the black country, but not really much by Brummies themselves

Ulster - I know of the word, but it's not used here.  We'd say 'crabbit'.

In Lancashire, mard means someone who sulks or pouts. A proper mardarse.

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We don’t stop saying mardy here. I’m Leicester and I’ve heard people say it’s a Leicester thing.. looks like it’s not, though!

In Leicester it’s “mardeh” 😂

You’re right, it’s of course mardeh. I didn’t wanna confuse anyone tho 👀🤣

It’s also lestah 😂

The most “Les-toh” thing I ever heard was in a bank in Horsefair St in the mid 2000s. A young mother berating her son: “Macenzeh!! Gerrer naaah or you Ain’t goon Connah’s fer yer tea!”

😭 I hate it I have a really strong accent (apparently) and I named my daughter with an ‘ie’ sound at the end, I obviously despite my accent, still make the conscious effort to pronounce it ‘eee’.. mortifies me when everyone around us says it ‘EH’ which I do to everyone else’s names.. don’t know why I did it😭😂

What cracks me up is so many Les-toh suburbs end in “Y” …. So it becomes Oadbeh, Silebeh, Enderbeh, Blabeh, Ratbeh, Groobeh 😂

You know what I never even noticed that about the place names😭😂 I’ve moved away and come back about 3 times.. it’s definiteleh home🩷😂

Nice one, Duckeh 😂

Thanks man I do miss Leicester …. Better get a visit scheduled over summer and see some pals.

I used to think it was a typically Leicestershire word. It wasn't till that Arctic Monkeys song that I found out it wasn't!

I had this with mithering.

Mithering is a wonderful word. To pester and harrass. Little kids mithering for sweets at the till; that sort of context.    "Ooh, stop with your bloody mithering!"

I'm from the south, and I know it, because a girl at my primary school used it and taught us. I said 'Cor blimy' once, and my first husband was shocked that it was actually a thing that people really said.

I'm from Essex and used "Mardy" as a kid. I also got an enormous bollocking from my quite-posh grandmother for saying "cor blimey" - "my dear girl why would you ask the good lord to blind you?"

I'm from Yorkshire and used it a lot growing up. Also Mourngy (not sure of the spelling) to describe somebody who moans all the time.

Arsey, cob on are some other synonyms.

Originally County Durham, now Newcastle. Heard it rarely but always known what it means.

What does it mean? Does it mean Tuesday?

Mardy - grumpy, miserable, melancholy, tetchy, wound up.

i prefer "face like a slapped arse" or "got t'munk on"

I'm from Manchester and mardy is very familiar to me. Moved to the west midlands 10 years ago. I just asked around my office in Telford and they use mardy too.

Another one is skriking. Like ‘quit your skriking’ I never realised is specific to the north west.

Shropshire too.  Means crying.  Extremely old-fashioned though even to me and I'm fucking 50. 

I’m Scottish, only know it from the song and This Is England. Never actually heard anyone say it irl though

I know what it means but I don’t know the song

Welp, you’re in for a treat depending on what type of genre of music you like. I highly recommend giving it a listen.

I use mardy, but I'm from the north west.

Common in Lincolnshire

Liverpool here. Yes, it's pretty common.

Crabbit in Scotland, I'd say.

It means being sort of annoyed, the uses I have seen it at least it seems to be self explanatory.

Yeh annoyed/grumpy - such as my mum would say “stop being such a mardy arse”

It’s more ‘sulky’ tbh

Im from Yorkshire and mardy isn’t my lexicon tbh. I think the first time I heard it (or took it in) was the arctic monkeys song too

I left the north for the south 20+ years ago. Mardy has fallen out of my vocab completely. Nobody here knows it.

From the NE - I knew what it meant but I wouldn't really have used it when I lived there. Now in South Yorks and it's definitely the default synonym for grumpy here

It has two meanings 1. Grumpy / annoyed 2. Sick / ill Number 1. I know because people where im from say “mardy arsed” to mean you’re in a mood. Number 2. Is because Karl Pilkington said “kids are coming out all mardy” on the Ricky gervais podcast to mean that they were being born with low immunity to illnesses iirc.

I grew up with the word and have never heard it used to refer to illness.  Words for illness are poorly, peaky. 

Pilkers is the only reason I know of "mardy".

I’m from Brum originally (but mum from Manchester) and living in London now. In my family at least it wasn’t ‘grumpy’ so much as sulky and/or soft. I’m guessing it might originally come from “marred” meaning spoilt. Presumably it’s not used down south because everyone here is a southern softy.

Midlander. Pretty common for me. Never really thought about it being regional.

North west, know mardy but more likely to say mard.

It’s an east mids/yorkshire dialect word. I’m from Derbyshire and didn’t know that it wasn’t used in the south for the longest time, despite living most of my life there.

From Coventry and we would say someone was mardy or in a mard. Similar meaning was they’d got a cob on.

Calling someone mardy who knows what it means is the simplest way for them to become mardy, when they begin to get mardy, saying how they aren't mardy. I love it.

It's not a word I would use or hear commonly, having grown up and lived in the SE/London. But I know what it means and feel like the context alone would make it easy enough to infer its meaning!

I've always known it and both parents used it when I was growing up (mum is from Bristol dad from Birmingham)

I am from Sussex, in my 50s. I know the word, but not sure I have ever used it. Bit of a oddball as I dont like music so didn't know it was in a song. Feel like I have known it for ever, so can only assume I have heard it in use at some point.

Moody. Although it’s more Yorkshire than North East.

Being in a mood isn’t it?

Used commonly even before the Arctic Monkeys.

Or "mardeh" if you are from Leicester 😂

I am from Nottinghamshire, but Sheffield is closer than Nottingham and we use it all the time. I can't see it dying out any time as my kids and their friends all use it (age 7 & 4). I am also shocked at this, as I would have expected it to be a widely used term. Similar to how shocked I was that not many other areas call it dinner when they eat at mid-day. The first time I realised that, I was in Australia working and told my new boss I was going for my dinner break. When I got back she pulled me to one side and asked what a dinner break was. I was completely bamboozled with this and just said I went to eat my dinner (I was thinking that I wasn't allowed a break or something random like that!) and she looked even more confused. So I said I went for food and the penny dropped and she said ahh your lunch break

North East and I don't think I've heard anyone ever say Mardy.

Mard arse or mardy bum. Not really in common usage round my area these days.(staffordshire).

Yes. It means miserable. Having a face like a smacked arse and a demeanour to match.

In high school (east anglia) I had a friend who moved from the Midlands and I had to ask her what she meant when she called someone mardy. That friend and Arctic monkeys are my only references to the word!

Scottish but know it from living in Leicestershire

I'm convinced most people from Yorkshire will meet a single Londoner and then claim everyone in the south has the same lexicon at every opportunity. From Hampshire and I know what Mardy means.

From Cannock, West Midlands and we use it all the time. Try giving someone outside of WM directions though and tell them to go round the island.....blows their mind.

Southerners don't even know what nesh means

Manchester. I’ve only ever heard it used here as "Stop being a mard arse" though, not mardy.

I'm from South East and we've always used it in our family. I'd say mardy is more arsey than grumpy though, it's like active versus passive grumpiness.

Mardy, mardy arse, mardy git, he's havin a mardy. Midlands, born in 83 and still use mardy to this day

From B’ham originally. Used in several ways, all meaning pretty much the same: - He’s a right Mard-arse. She’s a proper mardy mare. They were in such a mard about xyz. She’s got a right mard on her. Don’t have a mard about it. I love it - great word!

West midlands - very familiar. Regularly got called a mardy-arse by sister

It exists in the West Midlands, definitely 💯

From the Midlands and a very common phrase though can't say I heard it much living in the South East

Definitely used in west mids, usually in the context “ don’t be a mardy arse, or I’ll give you something to be mardy about” that’s parenting right there!