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▪ I. † sulk, n.1 Obs. rare—1.
[ad. L. sulcus furrow. Cf. sulk v.1]
A hollow or trough of the sea.
1578Sidney Wanstead Play in Arcadia (1629) 619 When he soiourned in the surging sulkes of the sandiferous seas.
▪ II. sulk, n.2|sʌlk|
[f. sulk v.2]
1. a. pl. A state of ill-humour or resentment marked by obstinate silence or aloofness from society. Often with the and in phr. in the sulks (occas. in one's sulks); also to take (the) sulks (Sc.), to turn sulky.
1804J. Grahame Sabbath (1839) 15/2 A child of about ten months old took sulks, and would not eat. 1818Todd s.v., We use also, as a colloquial term, to be in the sulks; which formerly was, in the sullens. 1824L. M. Hawkins Annaline I. 177 A fit of the sulks. 1831Greville Mem. 8 Dec. (1874) II. 224, I never had the advantage of seeing the Chancellor before in his sulks. 1839Dickens Nich. Nick. xxvii, Her pretty sulks and peevishness. 1885Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxxxi. 2 The child..frets and worries,..or sinks into sulks. 1890D. Davidson Mem. Long Life iv. 93 Ram Bukhs took the sulks. 1894W. E. Norris St. Ann's II. 208 When you are tired of being in the sulks, let me know.
b. sing. A fit of sulking; the action of sulking.
1792W. B. Stevens Jrnl. 8 Oct. (1965) I. 48 The strange Sulk of a Day and a half, during our Northern Tour. 1836J. Romilly Diary 21 Oct. (1967) 104 Much discussion (in wch the V.Ch. never joined, he being in a grand sulk). 1837Disraeli Venetia i. xiii, Mrs. Cadurcis remained alone in a savage sulk. 1888Contemp. Rev. LIV. 383 Rodbertus had lived for a quarter of a century in a political sulk against the Hohenzollerns. 1898Daily News 20 June 4/7 To try and force those proposals by a policy of sulk.
2. A person who sulks (rare); an obstinate horse (dial.)
1883Ld. R. Gower Reminisc. II. xxiv. 125 If one reads away from the others, one appears to avoid the rest and is considered a sulk. 1888Berks. Gloss., Zulk, a term applied to a horse that will not try to do what is required of him.
▪ III. † sulk, v.1 Obs. rare.
Also 6 sulke, sulck.
[ad. L. sulcāre to plough, furrow, f. sulcus furrow.]
trans. To plough (the seas). Also intr., sometimes with it.
1579Poor Knight's Palace, etc. K iv b, To sulke the seas and furrow foming floods. Ibid. L ij b, While saylers sulke upon the seas. 1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 50 Two serpents monsterus ouglye Plasht the water sulcking to the shoare moste hastelye swinging. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. i. 422 They..keep Upon the lee-ward still, and (sulking up the deep) For Mauritania make. 1682Earl Argyle To Lady Lindsay in Law's Mem. (1818) 213 Our admirall, though tide and wind say nay, He'll row and work, and sulk it all the way.
Hence † ˈsulking ppl. a., ploughing (the land).
1582Stanyhurst æneis i. 1 (I) forced Thee sulcking swincker thee soyle, thoghe craggie, to sunder.
▪ IV. sulk, v.2|sʌlk|
[Source uncertain; perhaps related to sulke a. Cf. NFris. (Sylt) sulke.]
intr. To keep aloof from others in moody silence; to indulge in sullen ill-humour; to be sulky.
1781F. Burney Diary May, I still sulked on, vexed to be teased. 1794W. Blake Songs Exp., Inf. Sorrow 8, I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast. 1852W. Jerdan Autobiog. I. xi. 82 My uncle..sulked a little at my not having made myself celebrated. 1861Reade Cloister & H. lxv, He sulked with his old landlady for thrusting gentle advice and warning on him. 1880Daily Tel. 4 Oct., It is now thirteen years that we have been sulking with the Republic of Mexico.
b. transf. and fig. Of a fish: To remain in hiding and motionless when hooked. Of tea-plants: see quot. 1891. In quot. 1860 refl. with out: to go out ‘sulkily’.
1860O. W. Holmes Elsie V. (1887) 75 The lamps..sulked themselves out. 1873Browning Red Cotton Night-Cap Country 154 Sorrowful Sulked field and pasture with persistent rain. 1873W. C. Prime I go a-fishing ii. 21 He started down stream, over a low fall and into a deep hole, where he sulked like a salmon. 1884Sat. Rev. 12 July 61/1 [He] was occupied two hours and twenty minutes in landing an eight-pound trout which sulked. 1891T. C. Owen Tea Planting in Ceylon, When the foliage becomes too luxuriant, and they [sc. tea-bushes] sulk and no longer send out vigorous flushes. 1905Sir F. Treves Oth. Side Lant. ii. ii. (1906) 33 Sluggish streams, sulking through a gully of sand and stones.
Hence ˈsulker, one who sulks; ˈsulkery (nonce-wd.) = boudoir; ˈsulking vbl. n. (also attrib. in sulking-room = boudoir) and ppl. a.
1888Library Mag. June 313 He called upon the *sulkers to come to the front.
1906Month July 72 *Sulkery, as they translated boudoir.
1816Lady Byron in Ld. Broughton's Recoll. Long Life (1909) II. 203 Such a sitting-room or *sulking-room, all to yourself. 1880Daily Tel. 4 Oct., Not all the sulking of which diplomacy is capable can restore Maximilian to life.
1778Foote Trip Calais ii. Wks. 1799 IV. 58 You sullen, *sulking, stomachful slut!
▪ V. sulk(e
variants of suck, swilk. |