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Meaning of "balkily" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BALKILY

balkily  [ˈbɔːlkɪlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BALKILY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Balkily is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES BALKILY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of balkily in the English dictionary

The definition of balkily in the dictionary is in a balky manner.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BALKILY


baulkily
ˈbɔːlkɪlɪ
bulkily
ˈbʌlkɪlɪ
cheekily
ˈtʃiːkɪlɪ
cockily
kɒkɪlɪ
gawkily
ˈɡɔːkɪlɪ
huskily
ˈhʌskɪlɪ
jerkily
ˈdʒɜːkɪlɪ
lankily
ˈlæŋkɪlɪ
luckily
ˈlʌkɪlɪ
milkily
ˈmɪlkɪlɪ
quirkily
ˈkwɜːkɪlɪ
shakily
ˈʃeɪkɪlɪ
silkily
ˈsɪlkɪlɪ
skilly
ˈskɪlɪ
smokily
ˈsməʊkɪlɪ
sneakily
ˈsniːkɪlɪ
spookily
ˈspuːkɪlɪ
sulkily
ˈsʌlkɪlɪ
swankily
ˈswæŋkɪlɪ
unluckily
ʌnˈlʌkɪlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BALKILY

balker
Balkh
Balkhash
balkier
balkiest
balkiness
balkingly
Balkis
balky

WORDS THAT END LIKE BALKILY

flakily
flukily
friskily
kinkily
pawkily
perkily
peskily
pluckily
pokily
riskily
rockily
slinkily
snakily
snarkily
spikily
spunkily
stalkily
stickily
streakily
trickily

Synonyms and antonyms of balkily in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «balkily» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BALKILY

Find out the translation of balkily to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of balkily from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «balkily» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

balkily
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

balkily
570 millions of speakers

English

balkily
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

balkily
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

balkily
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

balkily
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

balkily
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

balkily
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

balkily
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Balkily
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

balkily
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

balkily
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

balkily
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Balkily
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

balkily
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

balkily
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दलदलीने
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

balkily
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

balkily
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

balkily
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

balkily
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

balkily
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

balkily
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

balkily
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

balkily
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

balkily
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of balkily

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BALKILY»

The term «balkily» is used very little and occupies the 189.062 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BALKILY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «balkily» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «balkily» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about balkily

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BALKILY»

Discover the use of balkily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to balkily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Blood on the Moon: A Novel of Old Florida
The men led the mule off, while Ohnie wailed, “My little girl, she's done been snatched away from me. She's gone sure.” Jenny kept her eye fixed on Liddy. The mule cantered balkily. Liddy's body bucked and pitched, almost as though it had ...
Steve Glassman, 2002
2
The Way West
Keeping the rope tight with one hand, he took the loose end of it with the other and looped it over a wheel spoke and drew it up. "I'm busted." Evans clapped the ox on the rump. It stepped ahead balkily while Hig snubbed it. "I'm shy of good ...
A. B. Guthrie, 2002
3
Agnes Sorel: A novel ...
•red, as it were, and though solid enough, being balkily formed of dark oak, presented no ornament whatever. It was, in short, an uncomfortable-looking apartment enough, having a ruinous and dilapidated appearance, without any of the ...
George Payne Rainsford James, 1864
4
Thieves' Market
He kept reaching through the window and bringing it over with his hand, but it swept back balkily and he had to stick his head out into the rain to see the road. The rain was coming down so hard the drops were like shot on his eyes. When he ...
Albert Isaac Bezzerides, 1949
5
A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ...
Balkily; in bully parts: coarsely. a. Without aubtility ; without art; without delicacy or refinement. Newton. CRO'SSNESS. s [from gross.] 1. Coarseness; not tenuity; thickness. 3. Inelegant fatness; unwieldy corpulence. 3. Want of refinement; want  ...
Samuel Johnson, 1828
6
The Engineering Design of Systems: Models and Methods
The cryogenic system, which had to be emptied of its supercold liquids before the spacecraft was shut down, was behaving balkily. ... Oxygen tank two seemed jammed, venting only about 8 percent of its 320 pounds of supercold slush and ...
Dennis M. Buede, 2011
7
Apollo 13
The cryogenic system, which had to be emptied of its supercold liquids before the spacecraft was shut down, was behaving balkily. The draining procedure for the cryogenic tanks was not ordinarily complicated; it required engineers simply to ...
Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger, 2006
8
The Christening Quest
Jushia hugged the "god's" shield and stared balkily up at him. "You're free to come along if you like," Carole said. "But don't get in the way." "Who, me? Get in the way? Lady, had I not been fingered by jealous rivals I would still be the slickest ...
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, 2010
9
WORD JUDGE USA
... BALK BALKANIZATION BALKANIZATIONS BALKANIZE BALKANIZED BALKANIZES BALKANIZING BALKED BALKER BALKERS BALKIER BALKIEST BALKILY BALKINESS BALKINESSES BALKING BALKLINE BALKLINES BALKS BALES ...
Maliha Mendoza Mahmood, 2013
10
Carrots and Miggle: A Novel of East Texas
If Miggle had the equipment sterilized and put together when she came in, it made things go much faster and more smoothly. So things plugged along like an old mule, sometimes easily, sometimes balkily, until haying was done for the year .
Ardath Mayhar, 2009

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BALKILY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term balkily is used in the context of the following news items.
1
On the road: 2015 Chevy Suburban
You've got CD, iPod, USB jack, SD card slot which plays video by the way though a little balkily in this case, Bluetooth streaming obviously, and ... «CNET, Jun 14»
2
2015 Chevy Suburban: Big, fresh, and tech-laden (CNET On Cars …
... pretty much everything you want, you've got CD, Ipod, usb jack, SD card slot, which plays video by the way, though a little balkily in this case. «CNET, Jun 14»
3
Windows 8 Tips: How To Play Back Movies & Music
When a multimedia file is behaving balkily, you might want to give a third-party media player or codec pack a whirl. To read more stories about ... «Notebook Review, Oct 12»
4
What Is It About The Super Bowl That Sends Stars Stumbling?
... then a stagy but moving reading of the Declaration of Independence ended balkily, and finally Christina skipped the ramparts in favor of the ... «NPR, Feb 11»

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