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Balky   /bˈɔki/   Listen
Balky

adjective
1.
Stopping short and refusing to go on.  Synonym: balking.  "A balky mule" , "A balky customer"





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... in the East and West acted independently and without concert, like a balky team, no two ever pulling together, enabling the enemy to use to great advantage his interior lines of communication for transporting troops from East to West, reinforcing the army most vigorously pressed, and to furlough large numbers, during seasons of inactivity on our part, to go to their ...
— Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete • Ulysses S. Grant


Words linked to "Balky" :   intractable, balkiness, balk


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