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Balking
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- 1 That balks.; Tending to thwart or impede; frustrating.
"For these, the ground chosen was especially hard and slippery, and in bad condition; and to add to this, the wind, which blew the lath about, was very balking to the competitors."
- 2 That balks.; Causing one to pause or stop; disheartening.
"If there have not been the means to learn, if one knows nothing on a subject, to pretend or try to sympathize is more balking than to give it up."
- 3 That balks.; That refuses to cooperate or fails to behave in the desired and expected manner.
"Nowhere else is the mean or unreliable horse so utterly unendurable, even for a day, as about a circus. The balking brute may throw a parade into confusion or cause the most exasperating delay in loading a train."
- 4 That balks.; That makes motions which attempt to deceive the opponent.
"These large discrepancies must stem from inconsistencies in interpretation rather than the possibility that one crew was constantly drawing more balking pitchers than another."
- 1 refusing to proceed, act or work wordnet
- 1 A frustration or disappointment; a check.
"This supernatural world is the world of fulfilled desire, the world where the balkings, the trials and tribulations, the sorrows and the sins are no more, and where life is as the personality would have it […]"
- 1 present participle and gerund of balk form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
By surface analysis, balk + -ing.
By surface analysis, balk + -ing.
By surface analysis, balk + -ing.
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