balking
verbEtymology
By surface analysis, balk + -ing.
Definitions
present participle and gerund of balk
A frustration or disappointment
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 […]
That balks.
- 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.
- Here was a very balking answer, but in spite of it, Harold could not help believing that Esther was very far from objecting to the sort of incense he had been offering just then.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for balking. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA