单词 | argle |
释义 | † arglev. 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). < v.1589 |
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