sulkyn.

Brit.

/ˈsʌlki/, U.S.

/ˈsəlki/

Forms: Also 1700s–1800s sulkey, 1800s sulkee, sulkie.

Etymology: substantive use of sulky adj.

1. A light two-wheeled carriage or chaise (sometimes without a body), seated for one person: now used principally in trotting races. (So called because it admits only one person. Cf. desobligeant n.)

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > two-wheeled > sulky or trotting cart

sulky1756

trotting-sulky1883

robbo1897

trotter1902

jinker1916

spider1945

1756 Connoisseur No. 112. ⁋4 A formal female seated in a Sulky, foolishly pleased with having the whole vehicle to herself.

1775 J. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 55 My mare..ran and dashed the body of the sulky all to pieces.

1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain viii. 105 Many sulkies drawn by three mules abreast.

1861 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner xi. 125 The Doctor turned and looked through the little round glass in the back of the sulky.

1882 Standard 1 Dec. 5/4 (Canada) The din and noise of waggons,..buggies, sulkees, and ox teams.

1884 Birmingham Daily Post 23 Feb. 2/5 American Trotting Sulkie, weighs 56 lb.; to carry 180 lb.

2. transferred.

a. A bathing-machine for one. jocular.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > place frequented for bathing > specific structures

bathing-house1598

bathing-machine1771

sulky1807

bathing-hut1838

bathing-cabin1905

bathing-shed1932

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > other amusements or entertainments > [noun] > bathing > equipment

machine1763

sulky1807

Jacuzzi1966

1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xiv. 16 On re-entering your sulky in your new character,..you discover, for the first time, that your own towel is safely locked up at home.

b. (See quot. 1862.)

ΚΠ

1862 Mrs. J. B. Speid Our Last Years in India 129 A little silver ‘sulky’,..a small spherical box, pierced all over with small holes [etc.]. This pretty apparatus is intended for brewing a single cup of tea, by the morosely inclined.

3. Short for sulky-plough (see 4).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > implement with seat

sulky1891

1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 37 Two single-furrow sulkies with three horses each.

4. attributive passing into adj., applied to (a) a set of articles for the use of a single person, (b) an agricultural implement having a seat for the driver (U.S.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [adjective] > for use of one person

solo1774

sulky1786

individual1839

singlea1859

1786 H. Mackenzie Lounger No. 89. ⁋7 A dispute about the age of a sulky set of China.

1868 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1865–6 6 49 Driving a sulky plow, and plowing his one-fourth acre.

1868 14th Ann. Rep. Iowa State Agric. Soc. 1867 154 It is then plowed with double-shovel, or sulky cultivators.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2452/1 Sulky-cultivator, one having a seat for the rider, who manages the plows, moving them to the right or left as the plants in the rows may require.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2452/2 Sulky-rake,..a horse-rake having an elevated seat for the driver.

1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 137/1 Next spring I..bought me a sulky-plow.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sulkyadj.

Brit.

/ˈsʌlki/, U.S.

/ˈsəlki/

Etymology: apparently < sulk v.² Compare North Frisian (Sylt) sulkig.

a. Of persons and their actions: Silently and obstinately ill-humoured; showing a tendency to keep aloof from others and repel their advances by refusing to speak or act.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [adjective]

moodyc1300

distemprec1374

melancholiana1393

solein1399

darkc1440

gloomingc1440

girning1447

melancholyc1450

tetrical1528

tetric1533

distemperate1548

morose1565

sullen1570

stunt1581

humorous1590

gloomya1593

muddy1592

clum1599

dortya1605

humoursome1607

distempereda1616

musty1620

grum1640

agelastic1666

fusty1668

purdy1668

ill-humoured1693

gurly1721

mumpish1721

sunking1724

tetricous1727

sumphish1728

stunkard1737

sulky1744

muggard1746

farouche1765

sombrea1767

glumpy1780

glumpish1800

tiffy1810

splenitive1815

stuffy1825

liverish1828

troglodytish1866

glummy1884

humpy1889

scowly1951

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [adjective] > morose or sulking

solein1399

morose1565

sulky1744

sulkinga1777

troglodytish1866

troglodytic1871

1744 M. Bishop Life Matthew Bishop vi. 45 It is often seen in press'd Men that they are stubborn and sulky.

1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 10 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 557 Our hame, Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. iii. 49 He has sulky ways too, breaking off intercourse with all that are of the place.

1834 G. P. R. James John Marston Hall xi My companion generally rode on in sulky silence.

1856 J. Ruskin Elem. Drawing (1857) ii. 134 The true zeal and patience of a quarter of an hour are better than the sulky and inattentive labour of a whole day.

1880 W. Harris Serm. Boys & Girls (1881) 40 They were like..sulky children who would be pleased with nothing.

b. Of animals; spec. of a fish (cf. sulk v.² b).

ΚΠ

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 13 Back limped..The sulky leaders of the chase.

1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. Jan. 23/1 A great sulky pike hanging midway down the water.

1828 H. Davy Salmonia 30 I thought after a fish had been hooked, he remained sick and sulky for some time.

2. Of inanimate natural objects, the weather, etc.: Gloomy, dismal. Of things, with respect to their growth, progress, or movement: Sluggish. Also dialect, difficult to work.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective] > oppressively still or close

mocha1522

faint1525

close1591

clit1610

muggy1638

pothery1696

mochy1794

mucky1804

mungy1809

sulky1817

sticky1855

languorous1887

soggy1897

the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or intractable (of things)

wickc1330

riotous1340

wickeda1352

untreatablec1374

frowarda1400

inobedient1495

stubborn?1518

unwieldya1538

unruly1548

wieldlessa1560

hard1560

untoward1566

tickle1570

churlish1577

unwieldsome1579

rebellious1587

disobedient1588

unframeable1593

unwilling1593

untractable1601

unmanageable1606

intractable1607

surly1609

unwedgeablea1616

dogged1627

uncontrollable1648

obdurate1651

morose1652

uncompliant1659

sullen1678

unpliant1716

ungovernable1773

sulky1867

intractile1880

unwieldly1881

bunglesome1915

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] > sluggish or heavy > of things

sullen1597

sluggish1640

sulky1889

1817 W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) I. 380 The weather is still sulky and threatening.

1825 W. Scott Let. 11 Oct. (1935) IX. 234 Ones friends are not so easily entertained on such a sulky day as this.

1850 G. Cupples Green Hand iv. 46/1 The sulky patch of dark-gray sky.

1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling vii. 223 Some, again, are termed ‘sulky lakes’, and are very hard to get fish from at all.

1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Sulky,..applied to..rock which has no cleavage and is difficult to quarry, very cross-grained timber, &c.

1889 E. E. Green in Ceylon Indep. (Cent. Dict.) The condition called sulky as applied to a tea-bush is unfortunately only too common on many estates.

1890 W. C. Russell Marriage at Sea viii The sulky undulations of the water.

1905 Daily News 31 Aug. 6 The cream..gets ‘sulky’, or it ‘goes to sleep’, and then you may churn all day and get no result.

Compounds

sulky-looking adj.

ΚΠ

1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham II. xxv. 254 A few dull and sulky-looking fir-trees.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 692 The dull sulky-looking colt.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sulky
释义	sulkyn. Brit. /ˈsʌlki/, U.S. /ˈsəlki/ Forms: Also 1700s–1800s sulkey, 1800s sulkee, sulkie. Etymology: substantive use of sulky adj. 1. A light two-wheeled carriage or chaise (sometimes without a body), seated for one person: now used principally in trotting races. (So called because it admits only one person. Cf. desobligeant n.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > two-wheeled > sulky or trotting cart sulky1756 trotting-sulky1883 robbo1897 trotter1902 jinker1916 spider1945 1756 Connoisseur No. 112. ⁋4 A formal female seated in a Sulky, foolishly pleased with having the whole vehicle to herself. 1775 J. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 55 My mare..ran and dashed the body of the sulky all to pieces. 1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain viii. 105 Many sulkies drawn by three mules abreast. 1861 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner xi. 125 The Doctor turned and looked through the little round glass in the back of the sulky. 1882 Standard 1 Dec. 5/4 (Canada) The din and noise of waggons,..buggies, sulkees, and ox teams. 1884 Birmingham Daily Post 23 Feb. 2/5 American Trotting Sulkie, weighs 56 lb.; to carry 180 lb. 2. transferred. a. A bathing-machine for one. jocular. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > place frequented for bathing > specific structures bathing-house1598 bathing-machine1771 sulky1807 bathing-hut1838 bathing-cabin1905 bathing-shed1932 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > other amusements or entertainments > [noun] > bathing > equipment machine1763 sulky1807 Jacuzzi1966 1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xiv. 16 On re-entering your sulky in your new character,..you discover, for the first time, that your own towel is safely locked up at home. b. (See quot. 1862.) ΚΠ 1862 Mrs. J. B. Speid Our Last Years in India 129 A little silver ‘sulky’,..a small spherical box, pierced all over with small holes [etc.]. This pretty apparatus is intended for brewing a single cup of tea, by the morosely inclined. 3. Short for sulky-plough (see 4). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > implement with seat sulky1891 1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 37 Two single-furrow sulkies with three horses each. 4. attributive passing into adj., applied to (a) a set of articles for the use of a single person, (b) an agricultural implement having a seat for the driver (U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [adjective] > for use of one person solo1774 sulky1786 individual1839 singlea1859 1786 H. Mackenzie Lounger No. 89. ⁋7 A dispute about the age of a sulky set of China. 1868 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1865–6 6 49 Driving a sulky plow, and plowing his one-fourth acre. 1868 14th Ann. Rep. Iowa State Agric. Soc. 1867 154 It is then plowed with double-shovel, or sulky cultivators. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2452/1 Sulky-cultivator, one having a seat for the rider, who manages the plows, moving them to the right or left as the plants in the rows may require. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2452/2 Sulky-rake,..a horse-rake having an elevated seat for the driver. 1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 137/1 Next spring I..bought me a sulky-plow. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sulkyadj. Brit. /ˈsʌlki/, U.S. /ˈsəlki/ Etymology: apparently < sulk v.² Compare North Frisian (Sylt) sulkig. 1. a. Of persons and their actions: Silently and obstinately ill-humoured; showing a tendency to keep aloof from others and repel their advances by refusing to speak or act. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [adjective] moodyc1300 distemprec1374 melancholiana1393 solein1399 darkc1440 gloomingc1440 girning1447 melancholyc1450 tetrical1528 tetric1533 distemperate1548 morose1565 sullen1570 stunt1581 humorous1590 gloomya1593 muddy1592 clum1599 dortya1605 humoursome1607 distempereda1616 musty1620 grum1640 agelastic1666 fusty1668 purdy1668 ill-humoured1693 gurly1721 mumpish1721 sunking1724 tetricous1727 sumphish1728 stunkard1737 sulky1744 muggard1746 farouche1765 sombrea1767 glumpy1780 glumpish1800 tiffy1810 splenitive1815 stuffy1825 liverish1828 troglodytish1866 glummy1884 humpy1889 scowly1951 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [adjective] > morose or sulking solein1399 morose1565 sulky1744 sulkinga1777 troglodytish1866 troglodytic1871 1744 M. Bishop Life Matthew Bishop vi. 45 It is often seen in press'd Men that they are stubborn and sulky. 1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 10 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 557 Our hame, Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. iii. 49 He has sulky ways too, breaking off intercourse with all that are of the place. 1834 G. P. R. James John Marston Hall xi My companion generally rode on in sulky silence. 1856 J. Ruskin Elem. Drawing (1857) ii. 134 The true zeal and patience of a quarter of an hour are better than the sulky and inattentive labour of a whole day. 1880 W. Harris Serm. Boys & Girls (1881) 40 They were like..sulky children who would be pleased with nothing. b. Of animals; spec. of a fish (cf. sulk v.² b). ΚΠ 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 13 Back limped..The sulky leaders of the chase. 1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. Jan. 23/1 A great sulky pike hanging midway down the water. 1828 H. Davy Salmonia 30 I thought after a fish had been hooked, he remained sick and sulky for some time. 2. Of inanimate natural objects, the weather, etc.: Gloomy, dismal. Of things, with respect to their growth, progress, or movement: Sluggish. Also dialect, difficult to work. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective] > oppressively still or close mocha1522 faint1525 close1591 clit1610 muggy1638 pothery1696 mochy1794 mucky1804 mungy1809 sulky1817 sticky1855 languorous1887 soggy1897 the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or intractable (of things) wickc1330 riotous1340 wickeda1352 untreatablec1374 frowarda1400 inobedient1495 stubborn?1518 unwieldya1538 unruly1548 wieldlessa1560 hard1560 untoward1566 tickle1570 churlish1577 unwieldsome1579 rebellious1587 disobedient1588 unframeable1593 unwilling1593 untractable1601 unmanageable1606 intractable1607 surly1609 unwedgeablea1616 dogged1627 uncontrollable1648 obdurate1651 morose1652 uncompliant1659 sullen1678 unpliant1716 ungovernable1773 sulky1867 intractile1880 unwieldly1881 bunglesome1915 the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] > sluggish or heavy > of things sullen1597 sluggish1640 sulky1889 1817 W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) I. 380 The weather is still sulky and threatening. 1825 W. Scott Let. 11 Oct. (1935) IX. 234 Ones friends are not so easily entertained on such a sulky day as this. 1850 G. Cupples Green Hand iv. 46/1 The sulky patch of dark-gray sky. 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling vii. 223 Some, again, are termed ‘sulky lakes’, and are very hard to get fish from at all. 1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Sulky,..applied to..rock which has no cleavage and is difficult to quarry, very cross-grained timber, &c. 1889 E. E. Green in Ceylon Indep. (Cent. Dict.) The condition called sulky as applied to a tea-bush is unfortunately only too common on many estates. 1890 W. C. Russell Marriage at Sea viii The sulky undulations of the water. 1905 Daily News 31 Aug. 6 The cream..gets ‘sulky’, or it ‘goes to sleep’, and then you may churn all day and get no result. Compounds sulky-looking adj. ΚΠ 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham II. xxv. 254 A few dull and sulky-looking fir-trees. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 692 The dull sulky-looking colt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1756adj.1744
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