The Queen's English was good enough for Jesus Christ, so it's good enough for me

[venta]

We haven't had one of these in a while... yup, it's a word I use that no one else knows.

If I suggested you get someone to give you a croggy, would you know what I meant? I just used this phrase in the office (for context, to my boss who's currently having transport issues as his car's in dock). He looked at me funny.

He does that a lot anyway, but I think it was the word "croggy" in this instance.

Comments

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

We used mardy too in the North West. And paddy and eppy to mean the same thing too.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, they mean three different things to me :)

Paddy and eppy are more related to temper than mardy - a kid might have a paddy because it didn't get what it wanted, but a teacher would throw an eppy if you hadn't done your homework :)

I strongly suspect eppy of being politically incorrect, as I believe it to be derived from "epileptic". Though why epileptics should be crosser than other people is a mystery. Possibly just misunderstanding of "fit" as a medical condition and "fit" as in having a fit (of temper) about something.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Urban dictionary (which *must* be true eh?) reckons it is short for episode.

And, yeah, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if it came from a really incredibly offensive root, because that was the 1980s after all.

I suppose mardy also covered a broader range of things and was something you either just *were* or was episodic in nature like a tantrum.