Mardy vs Lardy - What's the difference?
mardy | lardy |
(chiefly, East Midlands) Sulky or whining.
(chiefly, East Midlands) Non-co-operative, bad tempered or terse in communication.
Resembling or containing (perhaps an excess of) lard.
(colloquial, pejorative, of a person) fat or overweight.
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(slang, pejorative) An obese person.
* 1989 , Weekly World News (14 February 1989, page 14)
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* 2004 , Warwick Allen, Sweat , page 286:
A lardy cake.
* 1985 , Jane Grigson, Jane Grigson's British cookery , page 32:
* 1997 March 30, "Paul Louis" (username), "Why are Americans such wankers.", alt.nuke.europe, Usenet :
* 2001 October 16, "Stephen Toogood" (username), "What is Twinkies?", alt.usage.english, Usenet :
As adjectives the difference between mardy and lardy
is that mardy is (chiefly|east midlands) sulky or whining while lardy is resembling or containing (perhaps an excess of) lard.As a noun lardy is
(slang|pejorative) an obese person.mardy
English
Adjective
(er)- He's a mardy child.
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.
lardy
English
Adjective
(er)- Go back to snarfling down your microwave lasagna, you lardy bitch.
- Look, Jeffy didn't start this, you lardy bitch. He tried to tell you.
- Well as you mentioned it. It's that fucking useless fat arse lardy bitch at Energis, you know the one who eats at [...]
Derived terms
* lardy cakeNoun
(lardies)- Funny Roseanne isn't kidding when she pushes for ladies to become lardies .
- You mentioned that your wife used to be a lardy and now she isn't. Did the pair of you train and diet together or was her approach more the weight watchers, slow pace jogging type?
- And as for the equipment they use, let's just say that Lance Armstrong won't be winning the Tour de France on one. In fact he probably wouldn't be able to turn the pedals, especially with a couple of lardies like us in the back, [...]
- ‘A bloomer, a Hovis, thank you, that's all ... oh, and put in a couple of lardies .’ Naturally, home-made lardy cake is even feggier than the baker’s. His aim is to put in as little lard, fruit and sugar as he can get away with: yours is, or should be, to cram in as much as possible.
- >Hmmm. American food is sugary? Not as sugary as the stuff they sell at
- >Somerfield's and Sainsbury's and ASDA--whole aisles of cookies and tea
- >biscuits. Ribena instead of fresh juice. No English muffins (which are
- >actually American) but lots of lardies !
- But Lardy Cake isn't really a London thing anyway. Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire is to my mind the epicentre of lardies .