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Synonyms for balled up

Grammar : Verb
Spell : bawl
Phonetic Transcription : bɔl

Top 10 synonyms for balled up
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Définition of balled up

Origin :
  • "round object," Old English *beal, from or corresponding to Old Norse bollr "ball," from Proto-Germanic *balluz (cf. Old High German ballo, German Ball), from PIE root *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell" (see bole).
  • Meaning "testicle" is from early 14c. Ball of the foot is from mid-14c. A ball as an object in a sports game is recorded from c.1200; To have the ball "hold the advantage" is from c.1400. To be on the ball is 1912, from sports. Ball-point pen first recorded 1946. Ball of fire when first recorded in 1821 referred to "a glass of brandy;" as "spectacularly successful striver" it is c.1900.
  • verb botch
  • verb confuse
Example sentences :
  • For the first time I understood the phrase, to be 'all balled up.'
  • Extract from : « A Woman Tenderfoot » by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
  • They got all balled up, just as their intellectual betters do when they tackle theology.
  • Extract from : « Old Crow » by Alice Brown
  • "They got it all balled up the night I seen it," says Bishop.
  • Extract from : « Gullible's Travels, Etc. » by Ring W. Lardner
  • Don't you like it when they all get balled up and get out that way?
  • Extract from : « Lin McLean » by Owen Wister
  • I got kind of balled up for one minute and thought it was you.
  • Extract from : « Cheerful--By Request » by Edna Ferber
  • The fellows would get balled up unless they had a good hours drill first.
  • Extract from : « Full-Back Foster » by Ralph Henry Barbour
  • He could clean this walk before folks get all balled up walking on it.
  • Extract from : « Carolyn of the Corners » by Ruth Belmore Endicott
  • The Great Republic lengthened her skirts last year, balled up her hair, and entered the world's society.
  • Extract from : « The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • Part of the time I sniveled and part of the time Allie sniveled, and once or twice we were all three all balled up in our throats.
  • Extract from : « At Good Old Siwash » by George Fitch
  • He was in the way out here and balled up everything that I gave him to do.
  • Extract from : « Bill Bruce on Forest Patrol » by Henry Harley Arnold
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