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

@Chicchicchicchiclana

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

I'm in Hampshire, I've never heard it used locally (I've heard it on TV, radio, etc though). I suppose the equivalent here would be 'arsey'..'he's got the arse', he's being arsey', etc. I do say 'cob on' sometimes as well, and also 'face on'... 'look at the face on him', 'he's got a right face on'.

Very common in my bit of the East Midlands but my northern mother also used to say it when we were growing up in the south of England.

South Yorkshire, we say it loads here

We had misery guts or missog

London

Manchester. Mardy = scared/a wimp "Don't be a mardy bum/pants!"

South Yorkshire. Also use (or used to widely use) face on, monk-on, marnge, lip out, titty lip, doorstep (see lip out), face like a slapped arse, whingy arse. They're what I remember from school in the 80s-90s

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

It seems that it's used in many areas but not everywhere. I'd never encountered it before MN.

Thanks all for answering my question and also for the more accurate description of Mardy. I now understand the difference between it and grumpy.

Often used in the Midlands.

South Yorkshire - sulky, sullen.

I know 'got a cob on' as sweating. 'Got a right cob on' - sweating profusely.

Up north - reminds me of Mardy Bum by Arctic Monkeys and they are from Sheffield

West Yorkshire and I am definitely a mardy bum. In fact my DH has dedicated the song to me on more than one occasion.

In Cheshire. Both mardy and got a cob on. Your grouchy, pissed off, miserable... Seen your arse/backside etc

It’s mainly mard arse that is used where I’m from, or acting mardy (Manchester).

I think it originates in the East Midlands. It's definitely extremely commonly used here in Leicestershire but also across the rest of the East Midlands and Yorkshire

Luton

See also Ducky

I had a uni friend from Leicester who says mardy. I’d never heard of it before. I’m from South Wales

We use it in Staffordshire.

Northampton- common here.

Yep definitely used here in Leicestershire

It’s used here on the Lincs/Notts border. I’m from further south and hadn’t heard the word ‘mardy’ until I moved here.

The other equivalents I have heard are

Nowty - Lancashire, might just be local to Wigan as no-one has mentioned it on here

Squinny - good Portsmouth word

South Yorkshire

Nottingham.

Mardy = more sour / whingey / miserable / sullen than just grumpy

Nowty. They say Nowty in the North Miss as well but it doesn't mean the same as mardy, is more sullen and argumentative.