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mandy | mardy |

As a proper noun Mandy

is {{given name|female|diminutive=Amanda}}. Popular as a formal given name in the U.K. in the 1960s and 1970s.

As a noun mandy

is the drug MDMA.

As an adjective mardy is

sulky or whining.

mandy

English

Proper noun

(en-proper noun) (plural Mandys )
  • . Popular as a formal given name in the U.K. in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • * 1928 Joyce Lankester Brisley: Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories . Chapter 1:
    • But Mother and Father and Grandpa and Grandma and Uncle and Aunty couldn't very well call out "Millicent Margaret Amanda" every time they wanted her, so they shortened it to "Milly-Molly-Mandy " which is quite easy to say.
  • * 1994 P.D.James: Original Sin ISBN 0679438890 page 10:
    • Without looking up, she asked: "Is your name Mandy or Amanda Price?"
    "Mandy', Miss Etienne." In other circumstances ' Mandy would have pointed out that if her name were Amanda the CV would have said so.

    mardy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (chiefly, East Midlands) Sulky or whining.
    • He's a mardy child.
  • (chiefly, East Midlands) Non-co-operative, bad tempered or terse in communication.

    • Usage notes

    Used throughout the East Midlands and South Yorkshire, plus other isolated spots in the North. In common use in most of Leicestershire, Rutland and the part of Lincolnshire close to these. It is used frequently in the city of Nottingham, throughout Derbyshire, and Derby city particularly. Mardy is also used in the southern part of South Yorkshire and Polesworth (West Midlands). Frequently combined with other words forming common phrases such as "mardy bum", "mardy cow" and "mardy bugger" [http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A769250]. Sometimes shortened to "mard" particular when used in certain phrases such as "mard arse" or "mard on" (as in "he's got a mard on" to mean he's in a bad mood).

    Quotations

    *1913 , *: “I wouldn’t be such a mardy baby,” said his wife shortly. * 1984 Food, Health, and Identity, Patricia Caplan [1997 edition *: When our Jonathan’s poorly...he’s mardy', ''very'' ' mardy .... * 2001, Creating a Safe Place, NCH Children and Families Project [2003 edition *: Sometimes my mum’s in a mardy and she says she doesn’t care about us — but she does really.