See baulk in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for baulk meaning in English (4.6kB)
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "baulks",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "baulk (plural baulks)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "balk"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "55 45",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "baulk colour"
},
{
"word": "baulk end"
},
{
"word": "baulk line"
},
{
"word": "in baulk"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed",
"text": "'And am I to plunge a harpoon into that beast!' 'That's your privilege, my son,' said Malone, 'and, sad to relate, unless I give it a miss in baulk, I shall have to be at your side when you do it.'",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of balk"
],
"id": "en-baulk-en-noun-IOypxNOU",
"links": [
[
"balk",
"balk#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(British spelling) Alternative spelling of balk"
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bɔː(l)k/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɔk/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[bɔɫk]",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɑk/",
"tags": [
"cot-caught-merger"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔːk"
},
{
"audio": "En-uk-baulk.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d0/En-uk-baulk.ogg/En-uk-baulk.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/En-uk-baulk.ogg",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"text": "Audio (UK)"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-baulk.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4b/En-us-baulk.ogg/En-us-baulk.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/En-us-baulk.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"word": "baulk"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "baulks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "baulking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "baulked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "baulked",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "baulk (third-person singular simple present baulks, present participle baulking, simple past and past participle baulked)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "balk"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "55 45",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XII",
"text": "What made those holes and rents / In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to baulk / All hope of greenness?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1952, Daphne du Maurier, “Monte Verità”, in The Apple Tree",
"text": "As he talked, slowly, quietly, I had the impression that it must surely be an accident that had happened, but that his mind, unhinged by tragedy, baulked at Anna’s death.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020 January 2, Philip Haigh, “Is there relief to congestion along Castlefield Corridor?”, in Rail, page 22",
"text": "What wasn't done was the second part of the work to add Piccadilly's two new through platforms. The Department for Transport baulked at Network Rail's price, but nonetheless May 2018's timetable increased services to 15tph. Punctuality dropped.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 September 30, Hannah Murphy, “The wildest job in Silicon Valley”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 18",
"text": "Colleagues and confidants describe Yaccarino as a conservative. But when I ask about her personal politics, she baulks.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of balk"
],
"id": "en-baulk-en-verb-IOypxNOU",
"links": [
[
"balk",
"balk#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(British spelling) Alternative spelling of balk"
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bɔː(l)k/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɔk/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[bɔɫk]",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɑk/",
"tags": [
"cot-caught-merger"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔːk"
},
{
"audio": "En-uk-baulk.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d0/En-uk-baulk.ogg/En-uk-baulk.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/En-uk-baulk.ogg",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"text": "Audio (UK)"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-baulk.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4b/En-us-baulk.ogg/En-us-baulk.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/En-us-baulk.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"word": "baulk"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɔːk",
"Rhymes:English/ɔːk/1 syllable"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "baulk colour"
},
{
"word": "baulk end"
},
{
"word": "baulk line"
},
{
"word": "in baulk"
}
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "baulks",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "baulk (plural baulks)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "balk"
}
],
"categories": [
"British English forms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed",
"text": "'And am I to plunge a harpoon into that beast!' 'That's your privilege, my son,' said Malone, 'and, sad to relate, unless I give it a miss in baulk, I shall have to be at your side when you do it.'",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of balk"
],
"links": [
[
"balk",
"balk#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(British spelling) Alternative spelling of balk"
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bɔː(l)k/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɔk/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[bɔɫk]",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɑk/",
"tags": [
"cot-caught-merger"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔːk"
},
{
"audio": "En-uk-baulk.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d0/En-uk-baulk.ogg/En-uk-baulk.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/En-uk-baulk.ogg",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"text": "Audio (UK)"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-baulk.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4b/En-us-baulk.ogg/En-us-baulk.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/En-us-baulk.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"word": "baulk"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɔːk",
"Rhymes:English/ɔːk/1 syllable"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "baulks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "baulking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "baulked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "baulked",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "baulk (third-person singular simple present baulks, present participle baulking, simple past and past participle baulked)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "balk"
}
],
"categories": [
"British English forms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XII",
"text": "What made those holes and rents / In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to baulk / All hope of greenness?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1952, Daphne du Maurier, “Monte Verità”, in The Apple Tree",
"text": "As he talked, slowly, quietly, I had the impression that it must surely be an accident that had happened, but that his mind, unhinged by tragedy, baulked at Anna’s death.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020 January 2, Philip Haigh, “Is there relief to congestion along Castlefield Corridor?”, in Rail, page 22",
"text": "What wasn't done was the second part of the work to add Piccadilly's two new through platforms. The Department for Transport baulked at Network Rail's price, but nonetheless May 2018's timetable increased services to 15tph. Punctuality dropped.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 September 30, Hannah Murphy, “The wildest job in Silicon Valley”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 18",
"text": "Colleagues and confidants describe Yaccarino as a conservative. But when I ask about her personal politics, she baulks.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of balk"
],
"links": [
[
"balk",
"balk#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(British spelling) Alternative spelling of balk"
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bɔː(l)k/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɔk/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[bɔɫk]",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɑk/",
"tags": [
"cot-caught-merger"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔːk"
},
{
"audio": "En-uk-baulk.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d0/En-uk-baulk.ogg/En-uk-baulk.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/En-uk-baulk.ogg",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"text": "Audio (UK)"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-baulk.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4b/En-us-baulk.ogg/En-us-baulk.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/En-us-baulk.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"word": "baulk"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.