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Originally Posted by JohnW
I always thought that 'mard' meant soft, as in a wimp. eg. "Don't be so damn mard, what ya cryin' for?
Another one my mother used to come out with was: "You're as soft as my pocket." meaning mard as I described above.
Some more:
If you were doing something and making a bad job of it my father would say; "You shape like John Smith" or "You're not fit to wrap toffee up at Tommy Hodsons"
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I always thought that it was "marred" not "mard", meaning spoiled. One of my mum's was/is "He's marred while he stinks"- usually one of my mates who she considered especially spoilt