sull
Americanverb (used without object)
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Also, sull up. to sulk; become sullen.
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to balk or become resistant.
Example Sentences
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That Stephen boy, he kind of sull up around her too.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
He sprung it on me that day I had a sull on.
From 'Me--Smith' by Gayle Porter Hoskins
Let me tell you, Missy, if you don't know nothin' bout oxen—they surely does sull on you—you beat them and the more you beat the more they sulls.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration
You jump in with me on this deal and see how easy you lose that sull.
From 'Me--Smith' by Gayle Porter Hoskins
“The old woman’s got her sull on,” he muttered, but his voice was pleasant enough when he asked: “Ain’t you glad to see me, Prairie Flower?”
From 'Me--Smith' by Gayle Porter Hoskins
I swear, instead of pleased, Quincy got all sulled up.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
But he had only "sulled," as his mother called it, never quite able to reach the point he desired of actually flinging the care, the gifts, and the loving labors back in the foster-parents' faces.
From Southern Lights and Shadows by William Dean Howells
He wouldn't have sulled around in no tent none!
From Mothering on Perilous by Lucy S. Furman
And for two days he sulled, and never come anigh her mornings, and mended the back fence.
From Mothering on Perilous by Lucy S. Furman
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