What's the difference between mulligrubs and sulky?

Mulligrubs


Definition:

  • (n.) A griping of the intestines; colic.
  • (n.) Hence, sullenness; the sulks.

Example Sentences:

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.

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