| 单词 | sulky |
| 释义 | sulky (once / 1233 pages) 1adj 2n Someone who's sulky is gloomy, or quietly unhappy. A sulky teenager is generally not a lot of fun at a family party. Some people tend to be sulky when they're unhappy or disappointed — when you're sulky, you're not just sad, but you mope and frown and sigh. You might be sulky if your brother gets to travel to England and you don't, or if your coworker gets a promotion instead of you. Sulky probably comes from an Old English word, asolcen, "idle, lazy, or slow," which has a Proto-Germanic root. WORD FAMILYsulky: sulkier, sulkies, sulkiest, sulkily, sulkiness+/sulk: sulked, sulking, sulks, sulky/sulkiness: sulkinesses USAGE EXAMPLES“Except perhaps they want them to continue making a sulky face on their identity papers, further weighing down the country’s morale.” Seattle Times(Oct 01, 2016) Polly, who was disliking the Queen and feeling rather sulky, would not have let her hand be taken if she could have helped it. C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew(1955) Monday at a home on Sulky Court after she failed to appear in court for charges related a traffic stop in March, the police said. New York Times(Aug 03, 2016) 1 1adj sullen or moody Syn huffish ill-natured having an irritable and unpleasant disposition 2adj depressingly dark Syn gloomful, glooming, gloomy dark devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black 3adj moving slowly 2Syn sluggish slow not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time n a light two-wheeled vehicle for one person; drawn by one horse Hyper horse-drawn vehicle a wheeled vehicle drawn by one or more horses |
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