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   sulky

   /ˈsʌlki/

   adjective

   • 1. morose, bad-tempered, and resentful; refusing to be cooperative or cheerful: "disappointment was making her sulky"
   • ▪ expressing or suggesting gloom and bad temper: "she had a sultry, sulky mouth"

   noun

   • 1. a light two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle for one person, used chiefly in trotting races.

   Word Origin mid 18th century: perhaps from obsolete sulke ‘hard to dispose of’, of unknown origin.

   Derivatives

   • 1. sulkily adverb
   • 2. sulkiness noun

   Scrabble Points: 12

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