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

South Yorkshire

"What a mard-arse"

Lincolnshire.

Seems mostly East/North Midlands.

Merseyside, very common.

Lincolnshire. Definitely one of ours here

Commonly used in South Yorkshire...Mardy, Mardy bugger, Mardy bum or Mardy arse to name but a few versions ...& yep there is an Artic Monkeys tune called Mardybum as they're from Sheffield

@TheQueef

A quick Google says it was first recorded in leafy Rotherham so deffo a stolen Yorkshire word.

Remember how much bother was caused when Twerk was stolen?
Many many innocent conversations became an entirely different thing overnight, poor Rovverum was caught in that storm as well.

What did twerk originally mean?

Grew up in NE wales, close to the border and was frequently told i was right mardy - feeble, sulky, whining.

It was common TomorrowAlready everyday use, pronunciation is same..
"Off twerk?" " been twerk" " going twerk"
Twerk used to mean work, To Work = t'werk = twerk.
An innocent enquiry of goin twerk? Has now become some dance challenge!

Another example of our beautiful dialect being stolen.

Mard arse, Manchester.
Well, at least that’s what I say.

Surely twerking is just a mash-up of twitching and jerking?

Anyway, to enlarge our anecdata, I would be interested to know if regions using mardy also have pikelets?

Yes I know I'm tea and strumpets but still

Yes, I read that "twerk " was a very old word, meaning a mix of twist and jerk. Apparently first heard in the 1820s!

I haven't heard the word pikelets since I lived overseas!!

I'm from London and only know it from the Artic Monkeys son Mardy Bum. Had to google what it meant!

@Clawdy

Yes, I read that "twerk " was a very old word, meaning a mix of twist and jerk. Apparently first heard in the 1820s!

Wow yes even better! I love these old words.

My ex was a Scot and had very peculiar ideas of what a pikelet is.
It didn't even have holes.
I don't mean crumpet v pikelet either it was off the chart. Like a failed Yorkshire pud.
That's not why he's an ex but I'd be lying if I said it didn't factor.
His insistence that Scotland invented custard tarts, refusal to acknowledge that Aye is in fact a stolen Yorkshire word and the indisputable fact that the Scots only ever got as far as York was all too much row fodder.

Thanks for your reply The Queef, just caught up with the thread.

South Yorkshire