Sulky

Definition: Sulky

Sulky

Adjective

1. Sullen or moody.

Noun

1. A light two-wheeled vehicle for one person; drawn by one horse.

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

Date "sulky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Slang in 1811

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

Synonym: Sulky

Dejection

Melancholy as a gib cat; oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy; downcast, downhearted; down in the mouth, down in one;s luck; heavy-hearted; in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums; in doleful dumps, in bad humor; sullen; mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping; moody, glum; sulky; (discontented); out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits; ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low; weary; discouraged, disheartened; desponding; chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen.

Discontent

In high dudgeon, in a fume, in the sulks, in the dumps, in bad humor; glum, sulky; sour as a crab; soured, sore; out of humor, out of temper.

Irascibility

Cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs; fractious, peevish, acari_tre. in a bad temper; sulky; a; angry. resentful, resentive; vindictive.

Obstinacy

Dogged; sullen, sulky; unmoved, uninfluenced unaffected.

Resentment

Adjective: angry, wrath, irate; ireful, wrathful; cross; (irascible); Achillean; sulky; a; bitter, virulent; acrimonious; (discourteous); violent.

Sullenness

Adjective: sullen, sulky; ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill-disposed; grouty; in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor; out of temper, out of humor; knaggy, torvous, crusty, crabbed; sour, sour as a crab; surly; (discourteous).

Vehicle

Equipage, turn-out; coach, chariot, phaeton, break, mail phaeton, wagonette, drag, curricle, tilbury, whisky, landau, barouche, victoria, brougham, clarence, calash, caleche, britzka, araba, kibitka; berlin; sulky, desobligeant, sociable, vis-a-vis, dormeuse; jaunting car, outside car; dandi; doolie, dooly; munchil, palki; roller skates, skate; runabout; ski; tonjon; vettura.

Crosswords: Sulky

Swedish (sulky).

Books

• Black Stallion's Sulky Colt (reference)

• El Caso De LA Joven Arisca/the Case of the Sulky Girl (reference)

• In Sattel und Sulky : alles über den Pferderennsport (reference)

• Peach Pie and Sulky Dust (reference)

• Perry Mason: The Case of the Reluctant Model/the Case of the Sulky Girl [ABRIDGED] (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

A sulky pulled by a in the horse campground in the Finger Lakes National Forest, NY. Credit: USDA.

Sulky race, Central Iowa 4-H Club fair, Marshalltown, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress.

The sulky races at the Rutland Fair, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sulky on road near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

And the more I laughed, the more sulky the little fellow got about it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "sulky": a sulky set of china ♦ be sulky ♦ huffish sulky ♦ put on a sulky expression ♦ sulky person ♦ sulky plow. Additional references.

Beginning with "sulky": sulky-looking.

Ending with "sulky": ever-sulky.

Albanian

i zymtë (black, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, depressed, dismal, dour, drab, dreary, eerie, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavy, leaden, macabre, mirk, mirthless, morose, mournful, muddy, murk, sad, sepulchral, somber, sombre, spleenful, stark, sullen, surly, tenebrous, winterly, wintry), i ngrysur (dark, dismal, farouche, gloomy, heavy, lowering, lugubrious, morose, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, woebegone). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متجهم (gloomy, glum, grim, morose, sullen), ‏عابس (austere, gloomy, grouchy, loiterer, morose, stern, surly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ядовит (atrabilious), намусен (disagreeable, dour, huffish, huffy, pouty), намръщен (dark, frowning, rugged), муден (backward, bovine, costive, dilatory, floppy, inactive, inert, laggard, languid, long, phlegmatic, slothful, slow, sluggish, stagnant, sullen, supine, tardy), злопаметен (rancorous, resentful, unforgiving), едноместна двуколка, потискащ (melancholy, oppressive). (various references)

Czech

trucovitý, mrzutý (annoying, awkward, bad tempered, chuff, crabbed, cranky, cross, crusty, dumpish, frumpish, glum, grouchy, joyless, Moody, out of temper, peevish, pettish, rugged, sullen, surly, testy, untoward, vexatious). (various references)

Danish

sulky. (various references)

Dutch

sulky, sulk. (various references)

Farsi 

قهر (Miff, Sulk, Tantrum, Wrath), ترشرو (Acid, Dogged, Gruff, Grumpy, Moody, Morose, Petulant, Rusty, Sullen), عبوس (Grim, Lower, Moody, Morose, Peevish, Rusty, Stern, Sullen), رنجیده (Angry, Glum, Indignant), دلخور, بداخم (Cantankerous, Stuffy). (various references)

Finnish

juro (morose, sullen, surly, unsociable), jörö (sullen). (various references)

French

sulky, maussade (sullen, surly), d'un air maussade, boudeur. (various references)

German

Sulky (arch, logging arch), schmollend (pouting, sulkily, sulking), sauer (acetous, acid, acidic, acidly, acis, acrid, cross, mad, moped, moping, off, pickled, sharp, shirty, sickly, sore, sour, soured, sourly, sulkily, tart, tartly, uptight), Trabrennwagen, mürrisch (cantankerous, crabby, crotchety, crusty, dour, fractious, glum, glumly, grumpy, liverish, morose, morosely, peevish, sullen, sullenly, surly, testy), eingeschnappt (cross, latched, peeved, Sniffy, sulkily), beleidigt (huffily, huffy, hurt, insulted, insults, libels, offended, offends, scathes, slights, sulkily). (various references)

Greek 

sulky, σκυθρωπόσ (cross, dour, glum, joyless, morose, saturnine, sullen, surly), μουτρωμένοσ (disaffected, stuffy), ελαφρή δύτροχη άμαξα, άθυμοσ (crestfallen, depressed, exanimate, Moody, mopish, sad, spiritless, vaporish). (various references)

Hungarian

duzzogó (peeved, peevish, pouting), rosszkedvű (cross, disgruntled, glum, grumpy, have a fit of blues, have the blues, have the hump, have the mumps, have the sullens, huffy, moody, out of spirits, pouting, shirty, to be in low spirits, to be in poor spirits, to be out of sorts, to be out of spirits, to be out of trim, to be out of tune, to feel blue, to feel out of sorts), durcás (fractious, like a bear with a sore head, peevish). (various references)

Italian

sulky, imbronciato (morose, pouting), cupo (abyssal, cavernously, dark, deep, dour, gloomy, hollow, morose, obscure, raucous, sullen). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

膨れる (to be inflated, to bulge, to distend, to expand, to get cross, to get sulky, to swell out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふくれっつら (sulky look, sullen look), ふくれる (to be inflated, to bulge, to distend, to expand, to get cross, to get sulky, to swell), ふてくされる (to become irresponsible, to become sulky). (various references)

Manx

pooitchagh (sullen). (various references)

Pig Latin

ulkysay

Portuguese

mal-humorado (bad-tempered, cantankerous, choleric, crusty, glum, ill-humored, ill-humoured, ill-tempered, moody, mumpish, snappish, snappy, snotty, splenetic, sullen, surly, techy, testy, tetchy), enfadado (disgruntled, moped, surly, weariful), carro ligeiro para corridas de cavalos, carrancudo (beetle, beetling, glum, moody, sullen, surly), amuado (grumpy), aborrecido (annoyed, beastly, boring, bothersome, damnable, disgusted, drab, dreary, dull, dullish, grouchy, horrid, irksome, jaded, meddler, morose, mumpish, outworn, pernickety, pesky, prose, provoking, soporific, stodgy, tedious, tired, tiresome, tiring, troublesome, unpleasant, vexed, vexing, wearisome, weary, worn-out, worried, worrisome). (various references)

Romanian

supãrat (angry, cross, furious, irritated, magged, Moody, peeved, peevishly, petulantly, poutingly, sad, snuffy, sullen, sullenly), sanchiu (grumpy), ursuz (churlish, crabbed, crabby, crusty, gnarled, grumbler, grumbling, grumpy, morose, peevish, somber, sombre, sullen, sullenly, surly), posac (adust, mopish, morose, sour, sullen, sullenly, surly), oţãrât (angry, crabbed, enraged, furious, sullen, sullenly), morocãnos (adust, crabbed, cross-grained, crusty, grouty, gruff, grumbling, grumbly, grumpish, grumpy, ill tempered, morose, morosely, peevish, snuffy, sour, sullen, surly, tetchy), mofluz, cãtrãnit (angry, black, downcast, embittered, furious, jaw-fallen, peevish, tar-colored, tar-coloured, Tarry), bosumflat (in the pouts, miffed, pettishly, petulant, petulantly), acru (acerb, acetous, acid, acidulous, acre, acrid, acrimonious, crabbed, cross, green, peevish, sharp, sour, sourly, surly, tart, testy, touchy, unripe, vinegarish), înţepat (haughty, stuck up, sullen, supercilious), îmbufnat (beetle, disgruntled, miffed, morose, morosely, poutingly). (various references)

Russian 

хмурый (darksome, glum, scowler). (various references)

Scottish

gnogach, dotarra. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mrzovoljan (cantankerous, cranky, glum, grouchy, ill-humored, petulant, saturnine, shirty, spleenful, splenetic, testy), koji se duri. (various references)

Spanish

malhumorado (bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, crabbed, crabby, cross, disagreeable, disgruntled, fractious, glum, grouchy, grumpy, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, low-spirited, moody, morose, mumpish, peevish, pettish, petulant, splenetic, sullen, surly). (various references)

Swedish

vresig (crabbed, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, disagreeable, grouchy, gruff, grumpy, ill-humored, ill-humoured, morose, peevish, perverse, ratty, vinegary), trumpen (glum, moody, morose, sullen). (various references)

Thai

ที่โกรธขึ้ง. (various references)

Turkish

suratsız (gnarled, grim, grouchy, morose, po-faced, saturnine, sour, sullen, surly, ugly, ungenial, vinegary), somurtkan (glum, grumpy, morose, sour, sullen, surly, unsmiling), sürücülü, tek kişilik iki tekerlekli araba, tek kişilik (oneman, one-man, single handed, single-seater, state), küsmüş, iki tekerlekli at arabası, huysuz (acrimonious, as cross as two sticks, bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, crabby, crank, cranky, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, crusty, cursed, difficult, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, farouche, fractious, fretful, gnarled, grouchy, gruff, grumbling, grumpy, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, mean, Moody, out of humour, out of sorts, peeved, peevish, peppery, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, querulous, ratty, rusty, shirty, snappish, spleenful, spleenish, splenetic, stroppy, surly, tetchy, thrawn, ugly, untoward, vicious, vixenish, waspish, wildcat, wrongheaded), bir kişilik, asık suratlı (dour, glum, lugubrious, morose, repining, saturnine, straight-faced, surly, vinegary). (various references)

Ukrainian

сердитий (angry, crabbed, cross-grained, grouty, irate, porky, rambunctious, roily, shirty), гойдалка (boat-swing, tilt), гнітючий (depressing, discouraging, dismal, oppressive, sullen), одномісний двоколісний екіпаж, повільний (costive, creeping, laggard, lagger, lagging, languid, leisurely, lingering, logy, slack, slow, sluggish, snail-paced). (various references)

asolcen. (various references)

Misspellings

"Sulky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: silki, sluky, sucky, suki, suky, sulch, sulkie, sulkk, szlk, ukky, zulk. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: sulk, yuks.

-2 letters: sky, sly, yuk.

-3 letters: us.

+2 letters: duskily, huskily, muskily, sulkily.

+3 letters: flunkeys, lekythus, spunkily, yamulkas.

+4 letters: puckishly, yarmulkes.

+5 letters: ankylosaur, buckyballs, cocksurely, leukocytes, skillfully, unshakably.