irritable vs sulky

irritable

adj
  • Easily exasperated or excited. 

  • Capable of being irritated. 

  • Responsive to stimuli. 

sulky

adj
  • silent and withdrawn after being upset 

noun
  • Any carriage seating only the driver. 

  • A low two-wheeled cart, used in harness racing. 

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