Sulk

Definition: Sulk

Sulk

Noun

1. A mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal: "stayed home in a sulk".

Verb

1. Be in a huff; be silent or sullen.

2. Be in a huff.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sulk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references)

Synonyms: Sulk

Dejection

Mope, brood over; fret; sulk; pine, pine away; yearn; repine; (regret); despair.

Discourtesy

Lose one's temper; (resentment); sulk; la; frown, scowl, glower, pout; snap, snarl, growl.

Sullenness

Verb: be sullen; Adjective: sulk; frown, scowl, lower, glower, gloam, pout, have a hangdog look, glout.

Crosswords: Sulk

Books

• The Incredible Sulk (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Sulk (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Beginning with "sulk": sulk-metal.

Albanian

var buzët (pout), rri me turinj, jam i zymtë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نفخ (balloon, be puffed up, belly out, bloat, blow up, distend, distension, fill out, inflate, inflation, insufflation, plump, pout, puff, pumping, swell out, windiness), ‏نكد (chafe, distemper, fractious, grouchiness, moodiness, moody, peevish, pettish, petulant, querulous, somber, sombre, splenetic, sullen, testy, vex, vinegar), ‏قطب جبينه, ‏حرد, ‏عبس (darken, frown, gloom, grow dark, lour, scowl), ‏إستياء (disaffection, discontent, displeasure, dissatisfaction, miff, pout, resentment, umbrage), ‏إستاء (feel bad, offend, resent). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сърдя се (be angry, pet), чумеря се (frown, lower), цупя се (grump, pet, pucker, tiff), муся се (huff, mump, pout, tiff), мръщя се (frown, glower, knit one's brows, knit the brows, lower, pucker, scowl). (various references)

Chinese 

�"��" (Displease, Displeased, Displeasing, Pique, Sulks). (various references)

Czech

trucovat, trucování, nevrlost (glumness, grumpiness, petulance, sourness, spleen, surliness), mít špatnou náladu, durdit se, být rozmrzelý (be disgruntled), špatná nálada (ill humour, tantrum). (various references)

Farsi 

قهر (Miff, Sulky, Tantrum, Wrath), ترشروءی (Lower, Scowl), اخم (Glower, Scowl), بداخمی کردن . (various references)

Finnish

olla nyrpeä, olla hapan, jurottaa (be in the sulks). (various references)

French

maussaderie (sulkiness, surliness), bouderie (sulkiness), bouder. (various references)

German

schmollen (pout, to sulk). (various references)

Greek 

σκυθρωπάζω (pet, pout), μελαγχολώ (be gloomy, brood, depress, fret, mope, sadden), μουτρώνω. (various references)

Hebrew 

לשתוק ברו�'ז. (various references)

Hungarian

durcásság (fractiousness). (various references)

Indonesian

mengambek (mope). (various references)

Italian

essere imbronciato (mope), essere di cattivo umore, broncio (moodiness, pout, sulkiness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

拗ねる (to be peevish, to pout, to sulk). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すねる (to be peevish, to pout, to sulk). (various references)

Manx

smull (huff, scowl, tarnish), pooitch (pouch), jannoo meill (pout, sulking). (various references)

Pig Latin

ulksay

Portuguese

estar de mau humor, amuar. (various references)

Romanian

supãrare (affliction, anger, annoyance, bitterness, burden, care, chafe, cloud, cross, damage, Dander, fury, grief, harm, irritation, mood, moroseness, mumps, pain, peevishness, pet, pettishness, pique, rage, Ruth, sadness, sorrow, spite, spunk, suffering, trouble, vexation), se supãra (make a long nose, mind, take offense at, take pet at smth., take smth. in bad part), se bosumfla (pout, purse one's lips), se îmbufna (pout), îmbufnare (gruffness, moroseness), îmbufna. (various references)

Russian 

дуться (be in the pouts, mump, pout, pouting). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pućiti se (pout), duriti se (flow down, make a fuss, pout). (various references)

Spanish

ponerse mohíno, estar mohíno. (various references)

Swedish

tjura (mope, pout). (various references)

Thai

โกรธไม่พู�"ไม่จา, คนที่โกรธขึ้ง, ความโกรธขึ้ง. (various references)

Turkish

surat etmek (be in the sulks, make a face, make face, make mouths, pout, pull a face), surat etme (making face, mug, sulks), surat asmak (frown, have the pouts, lour, lower, make face, pout, pull a face, sour), somurtmak (be in the sulks, frown, go sour, have the pouts, lower, make face, mump, pout, sour, turn sour), somurtma (frowning, huff, lour, lower, pout, sulking), somurtkanlık (grumpiness, grumps, morosity, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, surliness, vinegar), küsmek (be angry with, be cross, be in the sulks, be offended, be vexed with smb., huff, quarrel, repine, take smth. ill of smb.), küsme (being angry with, being offended, huff, miff, sulks, vexation). (various references)

Ukrainian

поганий настрій (grouch, grumps, ill humor, ill humour, megrim, pip), дутися (mump, pout). (various references)

Welsh

sorri (be displeased, chafe), pwdu (pout), monni (pout). (various references)

muchier. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sulk": sulked, sulker, sulkers, sulkier, sulkies, sulkiest, sulkily, sulkiness, sulkinesses, sulking, sulks, sulky. (additional references)

Words ending with "sulk": outsulk. (additional references)

Words containing "sulk": outsulked, outsulking, outsulks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sulk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Osulf, salk, Salka, salko, selk, selke, Selkup, Silka, Silko, slc, slu, sluc, solk, squl, suek, suk, suka, sul, sulch, suld, sulf, sulh, suli, sulkk, sulp, sult, szlk, Tulk, Ulc, ulk, zulk. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: us.

+1 letter: bulks, hulks, lucks, lunks, lurks, sculk, skulk, skull, slunk, sulks, sulky.

+2 letters: baulks, caulks, clucks, clunks, flukes, flunks, kluges, knurls, kugels, kulaks, plucks, plunks, saluki, sculks, skulks, skulls, suckle, sulked, sulker, suslik, taluks.

+3 letters: auklets, buckles, burlesk, duskily, huckles, huskily, kaliums, kistful, kludges, klutzes, kulturs, kummels, leukons, linkups, lockups, lookups, luckies, lunkers, lurkers, mamluks, mollusk, muckles, mukluks, muskily, outsulk, puslike, ruckles, runkles, sackful, salukis, sculked, sculker, skellum, skilful, skinful, skulked, skulker, skulled, spelunk, suckled, suckler, suckles, sulkers, sulkier, sulkies, sulkily, sulking, sunlike, susliks, talukas, unlinks, unlocks, uplinks, walkups.