All 3 Uses of
sulk
in
Old Yeller
- Little Arliss sat in the dog run and sulked while I packed water from the spring.†
p. 8.1sulked = was overly unhappy and unsociable
- I sulked and felt sorry for myself all the time I worked with the meat.†
p. 23.7
- Like cottontail rabbits and chaparral birds and a baby possum that sulked and lay like dead for the first several hours until he finally decided that Arliss wasn't going to hurt him.†
p. 36.3 *
Definition:
to be overly unhappy and unsociable -- often due to disappointment or a sense of not getting what was deserved