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baulking

baulking is the present participle and gerund of baulk.

baulking is the alternative form of balking.

Meaning of balking

Noun

balking (plural balkings)

  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 […]1928, Daniel Bell Leary, Modern Psychology, Normal and Abnormal: A Behaviorism of Personality

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Forms of baulking

pluralbaulkings

Questions about baulking

What is baulking the present participle and gerund of?
Baulking is the present participle and gerund of baulk.

Words near baulking in the dictionary

  1. baulker
  2. baulkers
  3. Baulkham Hills
  4. baulkier
  5. baulkiest
  6. baulking
  7. baulkingly
  8. baulkings
  9. baulkline
  10. baulklines
  11. baulks

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