in a bad mood or not speaking because you are angry about something 面有愠色的；生闷气的 Sarah had looked sulky all morning. 萨拉一上午都不高兴地板着脸。 🔊🔊 a sulky child 闷闷不乐的孩子 He lapsed into a sulky silence. 他陷入阴郁的沉默中。
Oxford Collocations DictionarySulky is used with these nouns:- child
- teenager
Word Originmid 18th cent.: perhaps from obsolete sulke ‘hard to dispose of’, of unknown origin.