'Mard'

[Khandro]

I have referred to Harry as being "Mard" to raised eyebrows. Being brought up in south Manchester this seems quite normal, but having checked the online dictionary it does not appear.

To me it means, weak, soft, moany & babyish

Does anyone else know the word ?

[Khandro]

Mard only seems to be in Captain's urban dictionary.
And I don't know for certain, but I always imagined the soft bun was spelt with an l - balmcakes,

As a schoolboy at Whitworth Street (M/c Central Grammar) we used to buy at lunchtime 3 pennorth of chips (old money) & a balmcake, colloquially called, "three & a bammer".

Anyway, is mard a good word to describe Harry?

[roopower]

I come from suffolk and someone described as mardy would be a bit of a grouch

[Rosie29]

When I was evacuated to Retford Notts as a 7yr old my Foster people called me Mardy - meaning whining miserable etc.
I'm sure I was .

[Atheist]

I wonder if 'mard' is a variation of 'marred' i.e. spoilt.

[Atheist]

barmcakes is spelt barmcakes. Barm is yeast.

[Barsel]

Khandro I've never thought of it as being spelt with an L in it, but I've never looked up the spelling of the word as I don't think it's a word I've ever needed to spell.
Not sure I would call Harry a mard baby or mard a**e, I would refer to him as a whinger or as some call him, a ginger whinger.

[bhg481]

I'd go with Atheist and spell it MARRED. It's certainly a word I grew up with in Lancashire and still use.

[Atheist]

I do spell it 'mard'.

[bhg481]

It's not a word I write, just use verbally , and I wonder if that's the case with most people, so never come across the written word.

[Khandro]

bhg; marred spelt like that is a common dictionary word;

1. To inflict damage, especially disfiguring damage, on.
2. To impair the soundness, perfection, or integrity of; spoil.

You could say; The football match was marred by hooligans

[bhg481]

Khandro - exactly. The point I was trying to make is that people use the word without connecting it to "spoilt". A mardy is a spoilt brat and people assume the derived adjective is MARD, not MARRED.

[Zacs-Master]

https://youtu.be/Lp1fQ51YZMM

[Peter Pedant]

- meaning whining miserable etc.
I'm sure I was .

yup in Manchester as we write, and mardy means that.

as in " Jonno, we have been with you all morning and you havent been mardy once" - - clearly mardiness comes in waves

[Peter Pedant]

I was brought up in Ancoats, Central Manchester. It's quite a different place now to the slums that it was then.

mentioned in 1844 condition f the working class - slummy even then but not as bad as Angel Fields - whee the co op bilding is