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mardy
English
Etymology
Probably from marred +? -y.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?m??di/
- Rhymes: -??(r)di
Adjective
mardy (comparative mardier, superlative mardiest)
- (chiefly Lancashire, Yorkshire and 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 English Midlands and in some parts of Yorkshire.
Frequently combined with other words forming common phrases such as "mardy bum", "mardy cow" and "mardy bugger" [1]. 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). Used throughout the East Midlands and some parts of Yorkshire, particularly in Hull and Sheffield. Maungy has the same meaning in most other parts of Yorkshire and east Lancashire, i.e. "he has a maunge on".
Quotations
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 2
- “I wouldn’t be such a mardy baby,” said his wife shortly.
- 1984 Food, Health, and Identity, Patricia Caplan [2] [1997 edition]
- When our Jonathan’s poorly...he’s mardy, very mardy....
Noun
mardy (plural mardies)
- (chiefly Yorkshire and Midlands) A sulky, whiny mood; a fit of petulance.
- 2001, Creating a Safe Place, NCH Children and Families Project [3] [2003 edition]
- Sometimes my mum’s in a mardy and she says she doesn’t care about us — but she does really.
- 2001, Creating a Safe Place, NCH Children and Families Project [3] [2003 edition]
Anagrams
- Madry
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marry
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?mæ??/
- (General American) enPR: m?r??
- (Mary–marry–merry distinction) IPA(key): /?mæ?i/
- (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA(key): /?m??i/, /?me?i/
- (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
- (Mary–marry–merry merger)
- Rhymes: -æri
- Homophones: Mary, merry (Mary–marry–merry merger)
- Hyphenation: mar?ry
Etymology 1
From Middle English marien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman, Old French marier, from Latin mar?t?re (“to wed”), from mar?tus (“husband, suitor”), from m?s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méryos (“young man”), same source as Sanskrit ???? (márya, “suitor, young man”). Compare its feminine derivatives: Welsh morwyn (“girl”), merch (“daughter”), Crimean Gothic marzus (“wedding”), Ancient Greek ?????? (meîrax, “boy; girl”), Lithuanian martì (“bride”), Avestan ????????????????????????????? (mairiia, “yeoman”).) Displaced native Old English h?wian.
Verb
marry (third-person singular simple present marries, present participle marrying, simple past and past participle married)
- (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. [from 14th c.]
- Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry.
- 1641, Evelyn, Diary, quoted in 1869 by Edward J. Wood in The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries, volume 2, page 241:
- Evelyn, in his "Diary," under date 1641, says that at Haerlem "they showed us a cottage where, they told us, dwelt a woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth husband, and, being now a widow, was prohibited to marry in future; […] "
- 1755, The Holy Bible, both Old and New Testament, Digested, Illustrated, and Explained, second edition, page 59:
- But Esau, being now forty years of age, took a false step by marrying not only without his parents consent; but with two wives, daughters of the Hittites.
- 1975 March 17, Marian Christy, "Suzy Chaffee, A Liberated Beauty", The Lebanon Daily News
- If and when Suzy does marry, it will be an open marriage because she's a believer in the "totality" of freedom.
- (intransitive, with dual subject) To enter into marriage with one another.
- Jack and Jenny married soon after they met.
- (transitive) To take as husband or wife. [from 15th c.]
- In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.
- His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailor's apprentice.
- (transitive) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband. [from 14th c.]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XXIII:
- The kyngdome of heven is lyke unto a certayne kinge, which maryed his sonne [...].
- He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XXIII:
- (transitive) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place. [from 16th c.]
- A justice of the peace will marry Jones and Smith.
- 1715, John Gay, The What D'Ye Call It?
- Tell him that he shall marry the couple himself.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of inanimate or abstract things) To join or connect. See also marry up.
- There's a big gap here. These two parts don't marry properly.
- I can't connect it, because the plug doesn't marry with the socket.
- (transitive, figuratively) To unite; to join together into a close union. [from 15th c.]
- The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results.
- 2006, Lisa C. Hickman, William Faulkner and Joan Williams: The Romance of Two Writers
- For Faulkner, these years marry professional triumphs and personal disappointments: the Nobel Prize for Literature and an increasingly unlifting depression.
- (nautical) To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
- (nautical) To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- divorce
Derived terms
Related terms
- marriage
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English Marie, referring to Mary, the Virgin Mary. Mid-14th century.
Interjection
marry!
- (obsolete) indeed!, in truth!; a term of asseveration.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act I, Scene 2,[1]
- I have chequed him for it, and the young lion repents; marry, not in ashes and sackcloth, but in new silk and old sack.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act I, Scene 2,[1]
See also
- wed
References
Further reading
- Marriage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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