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Moody

UK/ˈmudi/ US/ˈmudi/ fairly common slang uk

noun

1.

United States tennis player who dominated women''s tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (born in 1906)

2.

United States evangelist (1837-1899)

adjective

1.

showing a brooding ill humor

  • “a dark scowl”
  • “the proverbially dour New England Puritan”
  • “a glum, hopeless shrug”
  • “he sat in moody silence”
  • “a morose and unsociable manner”
  • “a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius” Bruce Bliven
  • “a sour temper”
  • “a sullen crowd”
2.

subject to sharply varying moods

  • “a temperamental opera singer”
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Origin

From Middle English mody, modi, from Old English mōdiġ (“brave”), from Proto-Germanic *mōdagaz (“courageous”). By surface analysis, mood + -y.

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