What's the difference between buggy and sulky?

Buggy


Definition:

  • (a.) Infested or abounding with bugs.
  • (n.) A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle.
  • (n.) A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Removing a sleeping child from a buggy may be inconvenient, but it is not likely to be as inconvenient for a parent as it would be for a wheelchair user to be prevented from boarding.
  • (2) He was sitting in his buggy in the hall, his face, hands and clothes smeared with chocolate.
  • (3) "When both the lifts weren't working they did say that if you were pregnant, had a health problem or a baby in a buggy you could use the main entrance," she said.
  • (4) Boutik Services (+33 6 0958 0988) in 1850 has cots, booster seats, changing tables, buggies and child skis for hire.
  • (5) The place was teeming with families and young children, and yet despite my best efforts to find one, I was pleased to note there didn't seem to be a Bugaboo buggy in sight.
  • (6) The plug-in architecture is a security nightmare, and a source of numerous breaches through which buggy or malicious code was able to reach into users’ computers and compromise them.
  • (7) Nor was it about whether parents in the wheelchair space with a child in a folding buggy should fold their buggies in order to make way for a wheelchair user: of course they should, if possible.
  • (8) We are supposed to have them by our early 30s at the latest – and not with some nobody we met on Tinder, but with a long-term partner who’ll push a buggy occasionally.
  • (9) Companies promise a trip like no other, with buggy tours lasting two days and one evening, 'long enough,' one brochure states, 'for nature enthusiasts to keep their excitement, but not too long to the point of monotony.'
  • (10) South of Newquay, Perranporth is great for activities from surfing and riding to powerkiting, landboarding and buggy riding.
  • (11) New parents also face a £9,152 bill during the first twelve months of their new baby's life, taking into account expenditure on equipment such as buggies, cots and prams etc.
  • (12) But local people say they had video evidence that it was not sabotage but a Shell contractor working in a buggy which struck the pipeline.
  • (13) But is it reasonable to give people in wheelchairs priority over people pushing buggies?
  • (14) As we leave her office, a half-naked child wanders into the corridor, and then the lift stops outside the in-house nursery for Jenny Willott, a Liberal Democrat whip, who is pushing two small children in a double buggy.
  • (15) There's lots of buggies in the world and it will have one, so don't worry about it.'"
  • (16) That's a logical falsehood, of course – akin to believing a challenge to the horse-and-buggy industry is a challenge to transportation itself – but it's a scary thought and therefore produces an extreme defensive response (government, do something!).
  • (17) She couldn't work the next buggy for love or money, so she wandered the streets looking for another similar model, found one, begged for guidance from the owners, which they kindly gave her, but by the time she got home she'd forgotten her instructions.
  • (18) Other photographs show the US troops boarding a blue and white-striped passenger plane and driving a yellow dune buggy.
  • (19) While better educated staff may be very welcome when it comes to playing imaginative games with children, or introducing them to the alphabet, there's no substitute for pairs of hands to do up little buttons, push buggies and give out cuddles.
  • (20) It’s about representing the people.” Suddenly we are almost bowled over by the man himself at the wheel of a golf buggy, heading for the nearby driving range where a few hundred locals on picnic rugs and folding chairs are waiting for a free concert by an Elvis impersonator.

Sulky


Definition:

  • (n.) Moodly silent; sullen; sour; obstinate; morose; splenetic.
  • (a.) A light two-wheeled carriage for a single person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This 90s pop confection had torn tights, a sulky attitude and high regard for Quentin Tarantino.
  • (2) As soon as I called them and was like, 'Hey guys, it's OK, I'm not smoking meth or anything,' it was OK." He adds, frowning: "I don't really know why it happened… My girlfriend told me everyone had been saying, [he puts on a sulky voice] 'Man, Mac's shows aren't crazy any more.'
  • (3) It's the first interview he's done since his marriage and divorce and the split-up of the Ordinary Boys, and it all comes rushing out in a spate, a tangle of chronological confusions and jokes, and groans when I quote some of his old interviews back at him, and statements of contrition, and digressions about Dawkins or whatever, and here's the confounding thing - he's really nothing like I was expecting, not indie-boy sulky, or attempting to play it cool, he's just talkative and engaging, and he has a sense of humour about himself that, from reading his previous interviews, I wouldn't have even guessed at.
  • (4) The sulky teenager has, in fact, got it slightly wrong: the family tradition is to be impregnated by the landlord of the Queen Vic – not, as in this case, the landlord's little brother.
  • (5) The Mirror also said that even Clarkson’s “most sulky fans” should find a lot to like about the show after his departure and the Telegraph welcomed Evans and co’s conservative approach.
  • (6) In the horse-related fatalities, the most common cause of accident was that the horse bolted or reared, causing the rider to fall off the horse or the cart or sulky.
  • (7) Updated at 7.45pm BST 7.35pm BST Asked on ITV about his pre-match team-talk, Mourinho reveals that he's giving his side the sulky wife treatment: "No words ... my silence is a good way for them to understand how I feel".
  • (8) Only rarely do we see a gem such as the glorious Quentin Tarantino interview, where he shouted at Krishnan Guru-Murthy : “I’m shutting your butt down!” As a rule, in print media, it’s your word against theirs regarding any sulky, ill-mannered, ball-stabbing shenanigans.
  • (9) This isn't the charming hero we're used to seeing Pitt play; he's jowly and sulky and racked with a sense of failure, a threatening and disciplinarian family presence.
  • (10) In a small room off the tunnel at Wycombe’s ground, as a tea urn belched steam into the freezing January air, he bemoaned, in his characteristically sulky way, a recruitment policy that had left him overburdened with attacking players but bereft of defensive cover.
  • (11) Brando was Johnny the biker in The Wild One (1953), a very camp figure, a gay icon, but a sulky kid who, when asked "What are you rebelling against?
  • (12) But in the case of Sulky Batman 3.0, it's way too po-faced.
  • (13) That sounds like a full-time job to me – try employing your sulky teenager or dog to do it for you.
  • (14) All those years spent in the dark, believing that colleagues were putting up with that sulky sourness in order to squeeze every moment from the day.
  • (15) The styles of the two men could not be more different – Ford's emotional careering from sulkiness to rage could not look more different, on TV at least, from Harper's gently superior thin-lipped smile.
  • (16) The meeting followed a four-year mutual sulky silence prompted by what Peter may (or may not) have said about Christopher being a Stalinist.
  • (17) Catch-22's author was then a sulky, ill-tempered 37-year old advertising executive in New York, who had thick, short, curly hair, a strong chin and a fleshy nose.
  • (18) When did your sweetpea become a massive sulky thing?
  • (19) It could be that their elimination is a liberation and they return to the free-flowing style of qualifying but the mood after the defeat by Nigeria was one of sulkiness and disaffection.