Sulk
[sʌlk]
Definition
(noun.) a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal; 'stayed home in a sulk'.
(verb.) be in a huff and display one's displeasure; 'She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted'.
Edited by Flo--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A furrow.
(v. i.) To be silently sullen; to be morose or obstinate.
Typist: Suzy
Definition
v.i. to be sullen.—adv. Sulk′ily in a sulky sullen or morose manner.—n. Sulk′iness.—n.pl. Sulks a fit of sullenness.—adj. Sulk′y silently sullen.—n. a light two-wheeled vehicle for one person sometimes having no body.
Edited by Adrian
Examples
- And then to watch the other sulking and dying in the distance; and the old lady--my future mamma-in-law! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- For a week or two he was ill, but he did not let Hermione know, and she thought he was sulking; there was a complete estrangement between them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- What you have done there Satan knows; nothing in this world, I believe, but sat and sulked. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The ships of the Athenians and their allies sulked unhelpfully. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now, no sulks, ye see; keep stiff upper lip, boys; do well by me, and I'll do well by you. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Checker: Prudence