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moody; old moody
noun- a fit of sulking UK
May be preceded by either “the” or “a”, often in forms such as: “pull a/the moody” and “throw a/the moody”. - CHARLIE [Michael Caine]: Now don’t come that old moody. You know how the game is played. — The Italian Job [uncut script], 1969
- lies, deceit, especially deceit by flattery, a confidence trick (see, especially, the 1977 citation) UK, 1934
- [H]is real speciality is the old international moody. — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 23, 1962
- Lies, a deceit, and in another sense, something that goes wrong. “What he said was just a load of old moody” means it was deceitful and false, and “It went moody on us” means that the expected successful result did not materialise. — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
- Geezers with ID cards giving you a lot of old moody about being unemployed[.] — Andrew Nickolds, Back to Basics, p. 37, 1994
- a period of (extreme) moodiness UK
- — Jenny Fabian and Johnny Byrne, Groupie, 1968
- in prison, a psychiatrist’s man-to-man, or even genial, approach to a prisoner UK, 1945
Usually with “the”.
▶ do a moody
to behave suspiciously UK
Prison use.- [D]oing a moody. “Doing something suspicious.” — Home Office Glossary of Terms and Slang Common in Penal Establishments, 1978
- — Sean McConville, The State of the Language, 1980
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