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means Sullenly silent and withdrawn, nursing a grudge or bad mood in a way that everyone around you is meant to notice.
from From an obsolete English word "sulke" or "sulken," meaning sluggish or hard to move — possibly related to an Old English root for slack or remiss. The adjective "sulky" emerged in the 18th century, and the noun for the light one-person carriage came soon after, named with a wink: a sulky seats only the driver, off in solitary moodiness, refusing to share.
- horse racing
- Also a two-wheeled cart pulled in harness races
- etymology
- From old word for hard-to-rouse, slow, sluggish
- silent treatment
- Sulking is anger that refuses to explain itself
- design logic
- The cart seats only one, selfishly alone
standardbred horse racing — harness racing where drivers sit in lightweight two-wheeled carts pulled by trotting horses, originated in the us in the 1700s
pony club sulky racing — british children's competition where kids ride in small carts pulled by ponies, popular at pony club events since the 1950s