balking
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Verb[edit]
balking
- present participle and gerund of balk
Noun[edit]
balking (plural balkings)
- A frustration or disappointment; a check.
- 1928, Daniel Bell Leary, Modern Psychology, Normal and Abnormal: A Behaviorism of Personality:
- 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 […]