sulk
noun/sʌlk/
/sʌlk/
(British English also the sulks [plural])
- a period of not speaking and being unpleasant because you are angry about something
- in a sulk Jo was in a sulk upstairs.
- to have the sulks
- Ed’s got the sulks again.
Word Originlate 18th cent.: perhaps a back-formation from sulky.Definitions on the go
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