Meanings
adjectivebalkish (comparative more balkish, superlative most balkish)
comparative more balkish · superlative most balkish
- obsoleterareuneven; ridgy
[…] I was forthwyth reclaymed from my former resolution, reckening it for better, that my penne shoulde walke in such wyse in that craggie and balkishe way […]
1577, Richard Stanihurst, A plain and perfect description of Ireland, quoted in The English Scholar's Library of Old and Modern Works
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