Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word sulkey.
Examples
-
-- Accordingly after thanking the Bramin for the account he had given us, we all promised to leave Mr. _Bruin_ to his own meditation; upon which, after taking two or three sulkey rounds, the young savage reared himself upon his buttocks, and shuffled
-
I pass over the next few days, therfore, mearly stating that my affaire de couer went on rapidly, and that Leila was sulkey and had no Male visitors.
Bab: A Sub-Deb 1917
-
And how, when they had met with no violence but only sulkey silence, and turned on the lights, there was Leila dressed ready to elope, and the Theif had his arms around her, and she was weeping?
Bab: A Sub-Deb 1917
-
And how, when they had met with no violence but only sulkey silence, and turned on the lights, there was
Bab: a Sub-Deb Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
-
The parties of those two Chiefs took different positions at some distance from each other and all appeared sulkey. after we had formed our camp we sent Drewyer with a pipe to smoke with the twisted hair and lern the cause of the dispute between him and the Cut nose, and also to invite him to our fire to smoke with us.
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
-
He was so tight that he could hardly sit in his sulkey.
Excerpts from the Diary of James L. Dusenbery, August 14, 1841, February 27 and June 1842 1841
-
When they handed me my bones to pick I could not eat, and they thought I was sulkey.
-
DE COUER went on rapidly, and that Leila was sulkey AND HAD NO MALE
Bab: a Sub-Deb Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.