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单词 argle
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arglev.

Forms: Also in the reduplicated argle-bargle, argol bargol.
Etymology: probably a popular perversion of argue, or confusion of that word with haggle.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
1. transitive. To argue obstinately, dispute about.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > argue about, dispute [verb (transitive)]
traverse?1504
arguea1513
to stand in terms?a1562
to stand with ——1579
argle1589
bandy1589
balk1590
ventilate1607
controvert1609
sticklea1661
chop1685
militate1754
1589 Hay any Work (1844) 11 I will neuer stand argling the matter any more.
1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch ix. 78 Me and the minister were just argle-bargling some few words on the doctrine of the camel and the eye of the needle.
2. intransitive. To bandy words, dispute, wrangle.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > contend, dispute, argue [verb (intransitive)]
flitec900
witherc1000
disputea1225
pleadc1275
strive1320
arguec1374
tolyc1440
toilc1450
wrestlec1450
altercate1530
disagree1534
dissent1538
contend1539
controvert1563
wrangle?1570
contestate?1572
to fend and prove?1578
contest1603
vie1604
controverse1605
discept1639
ergot1653
digladiatea1656
misprove1662
spar1698
argufy1804
spat1809
to cross swords1816
argle1823
to bandy words1828
polemize1828
controversialize1841
caffle1851
polemicize1881
ergotize1883
argy-bargy1887
cag1919
snack1956
1823 J. Galt Entail I. vii. 53 ‘Weel, weel,’ said the Laird, ‘dinna let us argol bargol about it.’
1827 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxxii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 480 But I hate a' argling and hargarbargling.
1861 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life 2nd Ser. 99 And all argle-bargling, as if at the end of a fair.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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