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Is it just me or anyone else feeling totally uninspired by this weather we're having, I was all ready to get up this morning and get out and do some photography but here in sheffield it's horrible, damp overcast and cloudy, I think I might be suffering from that SAD syndrome.

Sean.
 
SheffSean said:
Is it just me or anyone else feeling totally uninspired by this weather we're having, I was all ready to get up this morning and get out and do some photography but here in sheffield it's horrible, damp overcast and cloudy, I think I might be suffering from that SAD syndrome.

Sean.
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You'll suffer even more from no-one knowing what maungy means. ;)
 
Fairly easy to guess the meaning from the context. Had a lovely afternoon yesterday - complete with flat battery. Never mind, not long until Iceland.
 
I was about to look for it on a map!
 
Sorry to derail the thread, it's looking better today.
 
Know exactly what you mean. Set out with OH, camera in hand and dog at heel to walk near a local reservoir and barely took a shot. Dull, overcast, murky in a dull way. Only took a couple of shots. Still ... The dog had a good time so not a complete waste of a morning .... Hey ho ...
 
Dogs are great for that, giving you a reason to leave the house on a maungy day with camera.....just in case

Its high time we got another dog, dogs are kit pretty much, I'm more likely to take a dog than a tripod...lol
 
Beautiful morning down here!
 
Glorious all day down here. Just made it home before the Sun got low enough to be a PITA when driving West. Had a sort of picnic lunch - sort of since we had snacks from a couple of caravan type stalls and picnic since it was so lovely out that we stayed outside to eat.
 
Anyone who knows Sheffieldish will know what maungy means and will know that Sheffield has a language that's quite unique, speaking as an imposting Londoner I can speak from experience, I've lived here in Sheffield for nearly 35 years and every now and again someone catches me out with a word which is alien to me lol, anyway yesterday turned out to be a lovely day, me and my misses spent a wonderful day at Clumber park, it was quite nippy but lovely all the same.

Sean.
 
Ah, now Mardy I know!
Being originally from Derbyshire I have no problem with that one.
Mind you...when I moved to Kent They hadn't a clue :lol:
 
Mrs Nod is Sheffieldish but thought "maungy" was Cornish! She knows "mardy" but reckons it's usually applied to grumpy people rather than crappy weather!
 
it's really more West and South Yorkshire to be honest, call it a 25 mile radius of Wakefield...
 
Nod said:
Mrs Nod is Sheffieldish but thought "maungy" was Cornish! She knows "mardy" but reckons it's usually applied to grumpy people rather than crappy weather!
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She is correct!! :-)
 
It was Mark (TBY) who introduced mardy to the thread! A quick peek at page 1 of a Googling for maungy suggests that it's generally applied to children rather than weather - but "petulant and grumpy" describes that sort of day very well!!!
 
Such a shame that such a pleasant sounding word as "lugubrious" has such an ugly meaning! (Sorry for all the suchs.)
 
TheBigYin said:
overall though, I think "lugubre" is my favourite description in this thread...
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Yes, particularly when it appears from deep in the back of the throat Francais-style.

None of this will offer much compensation to the OP, though....

But look on the bright side, Sean, your post has stimulated an interesting discussion on the merits of different ways of describing something we all know and love (not!)
 
Yep your right, it's certainly sparked a debate, but I've checked with my misses and she assures me that maungy is defiantly the meaning of miserable and yes she's a Sheffielder through and through, but does anyone know the work "manky".

Sean.
 
Beautiful day in Warks/Northants. Spring can't be far away. :)
Maungy = mangy don't it?
 
SheffSean said:
Yep your right, it's certainly sparked a debate, but I've checked with my misses and she assures me that maungy is defiantly the meaning of miserable and yes she's a Sheffielder through and through, but does anyone know the work "manky".

Sean.
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Manky, I think is a good Scots word meaning dirty, though like many good slang terms it may have been appropriated by others.
 
steveo_mcg said:
Manky, I think is a good Scots word meaning dirty, though like many good slang terms it may have been appropriated by others.
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That's the way we use it too. (South Yorks).
 
SheffSean said:
Yep your right, it's certainly sparked a debate, but I've checked with my misses and she assures me that maungy is defiantly the meaning of miserable and yes she's a Sheffielder through and through, but does anyone know the work "manky".

Sean.
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I'd definitely have gone with my earlier translation, I'd describe a spoilt kid as maungy for instance but not an elderly auntie who's misery was caused by bereavement. So IMO it's not a straight translation of miserable.

I'd not considered the weather being manky, the kind of filthy that a dishcloth can be is manky, so manky would be wet and miserable weather.

On a related point, isn't it annoying when predictive text turns definitely into defiantly.
 
From what I can gather, maungy, mangy and manky all mean pretty much the same thing and have evolved from the same etymological root. Mangy and manky are both used down here but I would expect that many other dialect words have also migrated much further in recent years (the last 100 or so) due to things like armies being thrown together during wars and also the movement of students as far as possible from their parents, taking their weird words with them! Of course it's not only students who have migrated - Mrs Nod has been shifted around the nation fairly often (as a child) as her father either moved jobs or was relocated by his employers.
 
Nod said:
From what I can gather, maungy, mangy and manky all mean pretty much the same thing and have evolved from the same etymological root. Mangy and manky are both used down here but I would expect that many other dialect words have also migrated much further in recent years (the last 100 or so) due to things like armies being thrown together during wars and also the movement of students as far as possible from their parents, taking their weird words with them! Of course it's not only students who have migrated - Mrs Nod has been shifted around the nation fairly often (as a child) as her father either moved jobs or was relocated by his employers.
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Maungy, mangy and manky have completely different meanings where I'm from.

As above, maungy: petulant, mardy, grumpy, like a spoiled child
Mangy: scruffy, as in a badly cared for dog.
Manky: filthy, grimy like a disgusting dishcloth

As weather they'd be similar, but that wouldn't be their common use, which would be as in the above.
 
SheffSean said:
Yep your right, it's certainly sparked a debate, but I've checked with my misses and she assures me that maungy is defiantly the meaning of miserable and yes she's a Sheffielder through and through, but does anyone know the work "manky".

Sean.
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That's anyone from Manchester, surely..........
 
Phil V said:
Maungy, mangy and manky have completely different meanings where I'm from.

As above, maungy: petulant, mardy, grumpy, like a spoiled child
Mangy: scruffy, as in a badly cared for dog.
Manky: filthy, grimy like a disgusting dishcloth

As weather they'd be similar, but that wouldn't be their common use, which would be as in the above.
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jerry12953 said:
That's anyone from Manchester, surely..........
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You may think so, I couldn't possibly comment :)
 
Well the weather in the midlands is "Dudgey" today. I thought everyone round here knew that word but met lady on my walk this a.m. who's lived here all her life and never heard it.
 
It's just weather. Good photos can be created in dull cloudy weather. In fact... I'd much rather shoot in those conditions than many others. Lovely low contrast light... and with certain subjects, is actually the mood you want.

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There's no such thing as bad weather.... just people inappropriately dressed :)
 
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