colic vs sulk

colic

noun
  • Severe fussiness and crying, especially of infants with certain medical conditions. 

  • A medicinal plant used to relieve such symptoms. 

  • Severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to intestinal or bowel-related problems). 

adj
  • Relating to the colon; colonic. 

sulk

noun
  • A state of sulking. 

  • Leo has been in a sulk all morning. 

  • A furrow. 

  • A person who sulks 

verb
  • To express ill humor or offence by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn. 

How often have the words colic and sulk occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )