Balky is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 46 anagrams from letters in balky (abkly).
First recorded in 1840-50; balk + -y1
I urged it, as a farmer urges a balky horse, but it refused to move forward.
You buy a lot of half-broken, bucking, balky teams because you can get 'em cheap.
Then, with wind blowing him out horizontal under the wing, he hooks a boot on that balky wheel, kicks the mother home.
He insisted doggedly on his rôle as a balky ox and scowled at the teamster.
Roosevelt, Rockefeller, and Pierpont Morgan are just like this balky horse.
A balky horse ought not to be trusted to a child of your age.'
Why is a woman who tries to drive a balky horse like a successful actress?
It leaked, and it steered like a balky mule, but what of that?
The horse proved to be an obstreperous, balky thing, and as contrary as a mule.
Stover came to a balky stop, hastily snatching away his derby.