Balk vs Qualm - What's the difference?
balk | qualm |
ridge, an unplowed strip of land
* Fuller
beam, crossbeam
A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
* South
A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure.
(sports) deceptive motion; feint
# (baseball) an illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner
# (badminton) motion used to deceive an opponent during a serve
(archaic) To pass over or by.
To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
(obsolete) To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk.
* Evelyn
* Bishop Hall
* Drayton
To stop, check, block.
To stop short and refuse to go on.
To refuse suddenly.
To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to thwart.
* Byron
To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
* Spenser
To leave or make balks in.
To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
* Shakespeare
To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
(Webster 1913)
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Mortality; plague; pestilence.
A calamity or disaster.
A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc.
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A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness.
A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. (Now chiefly in negative constructions.)
As nouns the difference between balk and qualm
is that balk is ridge, an unplowed strip of land while qualm is smoke.As a verb balk
is (archaic) to pass over or by or balk can be to indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.balk
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) balke, (etyl) balca, either from or influenced by (etyl) .Alternative forms
* baulkNoun
(en noun)- Bad ploughmen made balks of such ground.
- a balk to the confidence of the bold undertaker
Verb
(en verb)- By reason of the contagion then in London, we balked the nns.
- Sick he is, and keeps his bed, and balks his meat.
- Nor doth he any creature balk , / But lays on all he meeteth.
- The horse balked .
- to balk expectation
- They shall not balk my entrance.
- In strifeful terms with him to balk .
- (Gower)
- Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, / Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see.
Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)References
qualm
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal)Noun
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