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A whole vocabulary spoken entirely through slammed doors and one-word answers.

means Sullenly silent and withdrawn, nursing a grudge or bad mood in a way that everyone around you is meant to notice.

from From an obsolete English word "sulke" or "sulken," meaning sluggish or hard to movepossibly related to an Old English root for slack or remiss. The adjective "sulky" emerged in the 18th century, and the noun for the light one-person carriage came soon after, named with a wink: a sulky seats only the driver, off in solitary moodiness, refusing to share.

horse racingAlso a two-wheeled cart pulled in harness races
etymologyFrom old word for hard-to-rouse, slow, sluggish
silent treatmentSulking is anger that refuses to explain itself
design logicThe cart seats only one, selfishly alone
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