verb, noun
verb [V] (disapproving) to look angry and refuse to speak or smile because you want people to know that you are upset about sth:
He went off to sulk in his room.
noun (BrE also the sulks [pl.]) a period of being silent and bad-tempered because you are angry about sth:
Jo was in a sulk upstairs. * to have the sulks
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sulk is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does sulk appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — sulk appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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