单词 | sulk |
释义 | † sulkn.1 Obsolete. rare. A hollow or trough of the sea. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > [noun] > trough sulka1586 valleya1616 trougha1625 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Lady of May in Arcadia (1598) sig. Bbb4 When he soiorned in the surging sulkes of the sandiferous seas. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021). sulkn.2 1. a. plural. A state of ill-humour or resentment marked by obstinate silence or aloofness from society. Often with the and in in the sulks (occasionally in one's sulks); also to take (the) sulks (Scottish), to turn sulky. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > moroseness or sulking morosity1534 dort1632 moroseness1653 surliness1700 sulkiness1760 sulk1792 sulks1805 sulking1880 mard1998 1805 J. Grahame Sabbath (ed. 2) 149 A child of about ten months old took sulk, and would not eat. 1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) We use also, as a colloquial term, to be in the sulks; which formerly was, in the sullens. 1824 L.-M. Hawkins Annaline I. 177 A fit of the sulks. 1831 C. C. F. Greville Mem. 8 Dec. (1874) II. 224 I never had the advantage of seeing the Chancellor before in his sulks. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxvii. 268 Her pretty sulks and peevishness. 1886 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David VII. Ps. cxxxi. 2 The child..frets and worries,..or sinks into sulks. 1890 D. Davidson Mem. Long Life iv. 93 Ram Bukhs took the sulks. 1894 W. E. Norris St. Ann's II. 208 When you are tired of being in the sulks, let me know. b. singular. A fit of sulking; the action of sulking. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > moroseness or sulking morosity1534 dort1632 moroseness1653 surliness1700 sulkiness1760 sulk1792 sulks1805 sulking1880 mard1998 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [noun] > fit of gloominga1400 terret1515 momurdotesc1540 the sullens1580 pirr1581 pet1590 snuff1592 mulligrubs1599 mumps1599 geea1605 mood1609 miff1623 tetch1623 frumps1671 strunt1721 hump1727 tiff1727 tift1751 huff1757 tig1773 tout1787 sulk1792 twita1825 fantigue1825 fuff1834 grumps1844 spell1856 the grumbles1861 grouch1895 snit1939 mardy1968 moody1969 strop1970 sull1972 cream puff1985 mard1998 1792 W. B. Stevens Jrnl. 8 Oct. (1965) I. 48 The strange Sulk of a Day and a half, during our Northern Tour. 1836 J. Romilly Diary 21 Oct. in Cambridge Diary (1967) 104 Much discussion (in wch the V.Ch. never joined, he being in a grand sulk). 1837 B. Disraeli Venetia I. 138 Mrs. Cadurcis remained alone in a savage sulk. 1888 Contemp. Rev. 54 383 Rodbertus had lived for a quarter of a century in a political sulk against the Hohenzollerns. 1898 Daily 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 (dialect). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > moroseness or sulking > person sulk1883 sulker1888 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > temperament > [noun] > stubborn or stupid sulk1883 dog1893 jughead1936 knot-head1940 1883 R. Gower My Reminisc. II. xxiv. 125 If one reads away from the others, one appears to avoid the rest and is considered a sulk. 1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases Zulk, a term applied to a horse that will not try to do what is required of him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † sulkv.1 Obsolete. rare. transitive. To plough (the seas). Also intransitive, sometimes with it. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] sailc893 lithec900 fleetc1275 ship13.. assailc1450 waft?a1562 sneir1568 sulk1579 single1587 navigate1588 waff1611 passage1791 society > travel > travel by water > [verb (transitive)] saila1382 sulk1579 upharrow1582 plough1589 waff1611 navigate1646 voyage1667 society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (transitive)] > sail or cleave the water or sea rideOE furrowc1425 sheugh1513 sulcate1577 sulk1579 busk1747 navigate1795 valleya1849 1579 Poor Knight's Palace, etc. K iv b To sulke the seas and furrow foming floods. 1579 Poor Knight's Palace, etc. L ij b While saylers sulke upon the seas. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 28 Two serpents monsterus ouglye Plasht the water sulcking to the shoare moste hastelye swinging. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion i. 10 They..keepe Vpon the lee-ward still, and (sulking vp the deepe) For Mauritania make. a1685 Earl of Argyll To Lady Sophia Lindsay in R. Law Memorialls (1818) 213 (note) Our admirall, though tide and wind say nay, He'll row, and work, and sulk it all the way. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [adjective] sulking1582 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 1 (I) forced Thee sulcking swincker thee soyle, thoghe craggie, to sunder. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2021). sulkv.2 a. intransitive. To keep aloof from others in moody silence; to indulge in sullen ill-humour; to be sulky. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > be ill-humoured [verb (intransitive)] to have pissed on a nettle1546 mumpc1610 to sell souse1611 sullena1652 sumpha1689 frump1693 hatch1694 sunk1724 mug?c1730 purt1746 sulk1781 to get up or out of bed (on) the wrong side1801 strum1804 boody1857 sull1869 grump1875 to hump the back1889 to have (also pull, throw, etc.) a moody1969 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > lack of social communications or relations [verb (intransitive)] > sulk hatch1694 purt1746 sulk1781 dort- 1781 F. Burney Let. May in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 341 I still sulked on, vexed to be teized. 1794 W. Blake Infant Sorrow in Songs of Experience in Compl. Poetry & Prose (1982) 28 I thought best To sulk upon my mothers breast. 1852 W. Jerdan Autobiogr. I. xi. 82 My uncle..sulked a little at my not having made myself celebrated. 1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth lxv He sulked with his old landlady for thrusting gentle advice and warning on him. 1880 Daily Tel. 4 Oct. It is now thirteen years that we have been sulking with the Republic of Mexico. b. transferred and figurative. Of a fish: To remain in hiding and motionless when hooked. Of tea-plants: see quot. 1891. In quot. 1861 reflexive with out: to go out ‘sulkily’. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [verb (transitive)] > go out in a particular manner sulk1861 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > tea-plant > [verb (intransitive)] > to not send out vigorous growth sulk1861 the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (intransitive)] > fish with hook > of a fish: to remain in hiding when hooked sulk1861 the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > move or go slowly [verb (intransitive)] > be or become tardy or sluggish tarrya1375 forslow1571 sulk1905 1861 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner vii. 67 The lamps..sulked themselves out. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iii. 154 Sorrowful Sulked field and pasture with persistent rain. 1873 W. 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. 1884 Sat. Rev. 12 July 61/1 [He] was occupied two hours and twenty minutes in landing an eight-pound trout which sulked. 1891 T. 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. 1905 F. Treves Other Side of Lantern (1906) ii. ii. 33 Sluggish streams, sulking through a gully of sand and stones. Derivatives ˈsulker n. one who sulks. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > moroseness or sulking > person sulk1883 sulker1888 1888 Library Mag. June 313 He called upon the sulkers to come to the front. ˈsulkery n. = boudoir n.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1906 Month July 72 Sulkery, as they translated boudoir. ˈsulking n. and adj. (also attributive in sulking-room = boudoir n.). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [adjective] > morose or sulking solein1399 morose1565 sulky1744 sulkinga1777 troglodytish1866 troglodytic1871 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [adjective] > in an ill humour maltalenta1578 in a jeer1579 in suds1611 sullen-sick1614 in the pouts1615 out of sorts1621 cross1639 off the hooks1662 huff1714 sulkinga1777 as cross as a bear1838 sore-headed1844 sore-head1862 baity1921 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > private or inner room bowerc1000 chamber?c1225 privy chambera1382 closeta1387 closera1400 conclavea1400 wardrobea1400 cell?1440 garderobe?c1450 retreatc1500 parlour1561 cabinet1565 cabin1594 in-room?1615 recamera1622 sanctum sanctorum1707 adytum1800 snuggery1812 sulking-room1816 sanctum1819 anderoon1840 inner sanctum1843 thalamus1850 growlery1853 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > moroseness or sulking morosity1534 dort1632 moroseness1653 surliness1700 sulkiness1760 sulk1792 sulks1805 sulking1880 mard1998 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [noun] > fit of > action of having sulking1880 a1777 S. Foote Trip to Calais (1778) ii. 58 You sullen, sulking, stomachful slut! 1816 Lady Byron in Ld. Broughton's Recoll. Long Life (1909) II. 203 Such a sitting-room or sulking-room, all to yourself. 1880 Daily Tel. 4 Oct. Not all the sulking of which diplomacy is capable can restore Maximilian to life. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1a1586n.21792v.11579v.2a1777 |
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