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Sulky vs Glouting - What's the difference?

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Sulky is a synonym of glouting.


As adjectives the difference between sulky and glouting

is that sulky is silent and withdrawn after being upset while glouting is sullen, pouting.

As a noun sulky

is a low two-wheeled cart, used in harness racing.

As a verb glouting is

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sulky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • silent and withdrawn after being upset
    • the sulky child
  • * 1865 , (Lewis Carroll), (w, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
    • The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky , and would only say, “I’m older than you, and must know better.” And this Alice would not allow, without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said.

    Synonyms

    * sullen, morose

    Noun

    (sulkies)
  • A low two-wheeled cart, used in harness racing.
  • Any carriage seating only the driver.

    • glouting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • sullen, pouting
  • *
    • She had been greatly, therefore, disappointed in the morning, when Mrs Western had changed her mind on the very point of departure; and had been in what is vulgarly called a glouting humour ever since.

    Synonyms

    * (sullen) pouting, sulky, sullen

    Verb

    (head)