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Definition of argufy in English: argufyverbargufied, argufying, argufies ˈɑːɡjʊfʌɪˈärɡyəˌfī [no object]dialect, humorous Argue or quarrel, typically about something trivial. It won't do to argufy, I tell you Example sentencesExamples - But there was something more than teenage argufying going on here.
- By any standard his Collected Poems of 1986 is a major achievement, and as religious as R.S. but accepting rather than argufying.
- Men amused themselves in the mess by argufying sometimes about any silly subject.
- They started to argufy but nobody remembered how many cans there were at the very beginning.
- The other day they got their heads together, and wanted me to do something, and I refused flatly, and they begged, and entreated, and argufied, till I made them all get down on their knees and ask me.
Synonyms quarrel, disagree, row, squabble, bicker, fight, wrangle, dispute, feud, have a row, bandy words, have words, cross swords, lock horns, be at each other's throats
Origin Late 17th century: fanciful formation from argue; compare with speechify. Definition of argufy in US English: argufyverbˈärɡyəˌfī [no object]humorous, dialect Argue or quarrel, typically about something trivial. It won't do to argufy, I tell you Example sentencesExamples - They started to argufy but nobody remembered how many cans there were at the very beginning.
- The other day they got their heads together, and wanted me to do something, and I refused flatly, and they begged, and entreated, and argufied, till I made them all get down on their knees and ask me.
- By any standard his Collected Poems of 1986 is a major achievement, and as religious as R.S. but accepting rather than argufying.
- But there was something more than teenage argufying going on here.
- Men amused themselves in the mess by argufying sometimes about any silly subject.
Synonyms quarrel, disagree, row, squabble, bicker, fight, wrangle, dispute, feud, have a row, bandy words, have words, cross swords, lock horns, be at each other's throats
Origin Late 17th century: fanciful formation from argue; compare with speechify. |