Obs. Also 8 sonk. [Origin unknown.] intr. To be sullen; to sulk. Hence Sunkan ppl. a., sulking, sullen.
1728. Ramsay, Monk & Miller’s Wife, 127 [He] ask’d his sunkan gloomy Spouse, What Supper had she in the House. Ibid. (1737), To Duncan Forbes, 64. For which they’ll now have nae relief, But sonk at hame, and cleck mischief.
1788. Picken, Poems, Gloss., Sunkan sullen, sour, ill-natured.
