All 8 Uses of
sulk
in
Moby Dick
- (SULKY AND SLEEPY) Don't know where it is†
Chpt 40-42sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
- "Didn't say dat t'all," said Fleece, again in the sulks.†
Chpt 64-66sulks = is overly unhappy and unsociable
- But far more terrible is it to behold, when fathoms down in the sea, you see some sulky whale, floating there suspended, with his prodigious jaw, some fifteen feet long, hanging straight down at right-angles with his body, for all the world like a ship's jib-boom.†
Chpt 73-75sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
- But if this whale be a king, he is a very sulky looking fellow to grace a diadem.†
Chpt 73-75
- what a huge sulk and pout is there!†
Chpt 73-75sulk = to be overly unhappy and unsociable
- a sulk and pout, by carpenter's measurement, about twenty feet long and five feet deep; a sulk and pout that will yield you some 500 gallons of oil and more.†
Chpt 73-75 *
- a sulk and pout, by carpenter's measurement, about twenty feet long and five feet deep; a sulk and pout that will yield you some 500 gallons of oil and more.†
Chpt 73-75
- In good time, nevertheless, as the ardour of youth declines; as years and dumps increase; as reflection lends her solemn pauses; in short, as a general lassitude overtakes the sated Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life, forswears, disbands the harem, and grown to an exemplary, sulky old soul, goes about all alone among the meridians and parallels saying his prayers, and warning each young Leviathan from his amorous errors.†
Chpt 88-90sulky = overly unhappy and unsociable
Definition:
to be overly unhappy and unsociable -- often due to disappointment or a sense of not getting what was deserved