In which region is the term mardy used?

[GreenBeanMcGee]

I keep seeing it on MN. It seems to mean grumpy but I'm curious to know in which areas/regions it's used?

TIA

I only know it from Artic Monkeys, don't think it's used in Scotland. 'Radge' is though, basically furious, uncontrollable.

I use it (South Yorks)
DH uses it (Lancs and Peak Dist)
Teenage DS doesn't use it (NE Derbyshire) - maybe he just has weird friends?

Nottingham. Very common here.

Manchester

Mard arse or stop being so mard = someone being soft or reluctant to do something or whingeing about something

Cob on = in a mood and being sulky

Used in Norfolk, ex MIL called most women Mardy cows

Lancashire and we would say mard arse

Lincs, notts, Derbyshire and yorkshire.

I remember saying it in London and was amazed that no one had ever heard of the word!

Used all the time here in Nottingham.

I can remember using it in conversation with a friend from London years ago and she hadn't a clue what I was going on about!

East mids

Mardy is a very common expression in Derbyshire / Nottinghamshire where I grew up. It doesn’t just mean ‘grumpy’, it has strong connotations of sulkiness or childish petulance, too.

East Lancashire - also mard arse (may just be one word apologies).

I'm from Sheffield, and "mardy" and "mardy arse" were used constantly. Always assumed it originated in South Yorkshire, but seems like it's more widespread than I thought.

Ooop north.

Didn’t the Arctic Monkeys from Sheffield have a song called ‘Mardy Bum?’

Yep. I'd never heard of the term until I heard that song!

It's a northern phrase

Add Cumbria to the list, I would say understood 'awl ower grim North'

Derbyshire here too and it’s currently used daily to describe my moaning 2 year old
Doesn’t want dinner on the blue plate she’s just picked, it has to be on the green plate. Wants the skin peeled off her apple but then it’s now broken so she can’t eat it. Want a sandwich cut into squares, then cries because it’s not 1 big one… definition of mardy

I'm from Coventry and was a mardy kid

@GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal

I always thought it was a Yorkshire term? It's a great word though, I love it.

Growing up on Tyneside our equivalent was "raj" or "rajjy" - as in "she went proper rajjy on us", or "he had a proper raj on."

I prefer marcy tbh.

As someone from the NE who moved to Derbyshire - I'd say it doesn't really equate with radjy... that's more actively angry, mardy's much more of a low level stroppy attitude.

For the current definition - DD1 tends to embody it (tweenage hormones starting early). It is a glorious word, rapidly adopted into my vocabulary when I moved here.

Mardy bum 😆 Midlands here and coaching southerners in various phrases!

I would have thought it's all across the UK? I'm familiar with mardy and have only lived in Hampshire, Surrey and London.

There is an American tennis player called Mardy Fish 😂.

North Midlands as in "you're a right Mard arse" or "you're being mardy".

Mardy, mardy arse used in East Yorkshire.

also Raj haven't heard it in donkeys years though, had forgotten all about it until GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal mentioned it.
it was used in a "alright alright don't get a raj on" so of way.

I use it but no one else in the north east seems to