Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To be sullenly aloof or withdrawn, as in silent resentment or protest.
- n. A mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal: stayed home in a sulk; a case of the sulks.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Languid; slow; dull; of goods, hard to sell.
- To be sulky; indulge in a sullen or sulky mood; be morose or glum.
- To keep still when hooked: said of a fish.
- n. A state of sulkiness; sullen fit or mood: often in the plural: as, to be in a sulk or in the sulks; to have a fit of the sulks.
- n. A furrow.
- To furrow; plow.
Wiktionary
- n. a state of sulking.
- v. to express ill humor or offense by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A furrow.
- v. To be silently sullen; to be morose or obstinate.
WordNet 3.0
- v. be in a huff and display one's displeasure
- n. a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal
Etymologies
- Back-formation from sulky1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Only if I would have let my common sense exceed my sense of humor and utilized it at that the time when it actually mattered, today it would have been a different story altogether….*sulk, sulk, sulk*….now don’t you guys think that I am jealous or something.”
“Not with a ten-word sulk about how aweful it is you have to take a few minutes from your life to write a few paragraphs.”
“They kind of sulk during hot summers then perk up to show off in early spring.”
“You have to get over the 'sulk' and get back onto something.”
“Beryl's "sulk" had grown, like the gathering clouds of an impending storm, into a big gloom that did not lighten even when, after dinner, the girls were left alone in the library with their beloved "one thousand and seventy-four" books.”
“According to the BBC's gardening wizards it will "sulk" if it is planted in heavy clay or shale.”
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
“There will always be times the Captain and Coach disagree, but Smith seems to "sulk" when decisions are made that he does not agree with 100% ...”
“He said his dog loved going to the pub after work with him and would "sulk" if he left her in the van or took her home while he went there during her ban.”
“I sulked for a day or two, but my sulk was not having the desired effect on my dad.”
“Its such a sad testament to our 2 party system that one of them are in the midst of such a shock after the election that all they can do is two things, sulk, and bad mouth.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sulk’.
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hunting
crudely, unequivocal, obsolete, obscure, overtly, misdeed, shack, inherent, outcry, hefty, composed, poised and 318 more...
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WF - list of EN back-formations
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_back-formations
aborigine, accrete, acculturate, admix, admixture, adolesce, adsorb, adulate, advect, aesthete, air-condition, anticline and 212 more...
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Words sung by: Belle and Sebastian
beguiling, herbaceous, peninsula, suffragette, damascan, hastening, berserk, overtime, leccy, bestow, swathe, arab strap and 193 more...
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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Down in the dumps, feeling blue? Here, then, is a list for you...
feeling blue, down in the dumps, blue devils, mulligrubs, mubblefubbles, melancholy, lugubrious, gloomy gus, eeyore, doleful, woeful, woebegone and 86 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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wanderstar's Words
superlative, mulish, mumps, catatonic, aquiline, clandestine, phantasmagoria, chryselephantine, microfiche, mutineer, reprobate, ruthless and 312 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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imogen's Words
coagitate, cloche, harum-scarum, foxglove, cryptolect, cant, roux, angora, duff, ulysse, schadenfreude, pepperpot and 315 more...
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Words grabbed from real life conversa...
If I've seen it, heard it, or marvelled at it, I'll stick it here.
cruft, ermine, redundant, shakespearean, camino, marvelous, stupendous, chagrin, shaven, sleek, smug, stillness and 325 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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Units Of Language
Word:
-a unit of language consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning.sulk, promenade, skulk, idle, subsequently, moody, paroxysm, felony, anent, generic, hallucinogen, synaesthesia and 215 more...
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Wrapped up in books
I'm reading books. And there are words and phrases I come upon for the first time, or that are used with usages that are new to me.
So, this is just a plain list of those words. Don't expect ...hobble, mackerel, crone, cavort, hoyden, rheumy, scatter, hiss, recoil, trundle, shatter, flaxen and 200 more...
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bobodod's Words
cultie, screwery, gauge, wanker, truthiness, harangue, mediocre, ragamuffin, elysian, spoonerism, loquacious, apostle and 240 more...
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mkuo's Words
sigh, chum, clandestine, behemoth, paramour, leviathan, dollop, wastrel, pedantic, hankering, warble, lope and 317 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for sulk.
Prolagus Song quotation on horsey. Sep 30, 2008