different between sulky vs carriage

English

Etymology

From sulk +? -y. The horse-drawn vehicle is so called as it obliges the rider to be alone.

Adjective

sulky (comparative sulkier, superlative sulkiest)

1. (often derogatory) silent and withdrawn after being upset
   • 1865, Lewis Carroll, 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

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Noun

sulky (plural sulkies)

1. A low two-wheeled cart, used in harness racing.
2. Any carriage seating only the driver.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English cariage, from Old Northern French cariage, from carier (“to carry”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæ??d?/, /?k???d?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæ??d?/
• (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
• (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Rhymes: -æ??d?
• Hyphenation: car?riage

Noun

carriage (countable and uncountable, plural carriages)

1. The act of conveying; carrying.
2. Means of conveyance.
3. A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.

   The carriage ride was very romantic.

4. (Britain) A rail car, especially one designed for the conveyance of passengers.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
5. (now rare) A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     His carriage was full comely and vpright, / His countenaunce demure and temperate [...].

   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "Characters," [1]

     In spite of her erect carriage she could flop to her knees to pray as smart as any of us.

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 90:

     He chose to speak largely about Vietnam [...], and his wonderfully sonorous voice was as enthralling to me as his very striking carriage and appearance.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
6. (archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 407:

     He now assumed a carriage to me so very different from what he had lately worn, and so nearly resembling his behaviour the first week of our marriage, that […] he might, possibly, have rekindled my fondness for him.

   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:

     Some people whisper but no doubt they lie, / For malice still imputes some private end, / That Inez had, ere Don Alfonso's marriage, / Forgot with him her very prudent carriage [...].

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
7. The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
8. (US, New England) A shopping cart.
9. (Britain) A stroller; a baby carriage.
10. The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and carriage paid).

    Synonyms: freight, freightage, cartage, charge, rate

11. (archaic) That which is carried, baggage

    • And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.

    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.

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See also

• carriage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Appendix:Carriages