I am working on a story about a group of people who care about each other, and one of whom is often fussy/irritated, especially when waking up.
I’d like to have one or more characters playfully refer to their mood - similar to how in English someone might be called a grumpy bear or Mr Cranky-pants.
Diolch!
Mistar Pwdu?
Maybe yr hen ffwdan (the old fuss) ?
I think that would work well, thanks!
Thanks! This will fit quite nicely 
I could see it being used to try and get someone to smile.
Mistar Monni … would be a lovely alliteration.
I thought only Northern Mid Walians used monni for sulking … but a few lads in Y Bala said it was familiar when I was overfretting whether to use llyncu mul or pwdu haha…its probably a gog word afterall
I came across the word delwi “to mope” in Gairglo yesterday - not one I’d heard before, but if past experience is anything to go by, it will probably start popping up everywhere now 
Yes… not commonly heard but I love it
delwi from delw
mynd fel delw - move like a statue/effigy (motionless)
Mope / Moping in this sense regards being sullen and near motionless/frozen … nowadays people would possibly refer to it as a “depressed state/ melancholic state/lethargic”
That is very interesting how sulking is tied in with ideas of being melancholy.
I’ve started learning a bit more about it because I was recently reintroduced to Albrecht Duhrer’s Melancholia II etching, which I’d seen once as a teenager and it made a really strong impression. But I forgot the name of it until a few months ago, so am diving into it between other projects.
It seems like when melancholy was personified historically, it was usually depicted like that - someone staring off into the distance, the most unhappy they could possibly be.
Well…I have never seen a happy sulker I suppose!
Did melancholy not always have the same negative downbeat meaning? The same way awful used to mean awe inspiring in the 1600s?
