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argal

1

[ ahr-guhl ]

noun



argal

2

[ ahr-guhl ]

conjunction

, Literary.
  1. therefore: used facetiously to indicate that the reasoning that had gone before or the conclusion that follows is specious or absurd.

argal

/ ˈɑːɡəl /

noun

  1. another name for argol
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of argal1

First recorded in 1595–1605; probably representing a popular Early Modern English pronunciation of Latin ergō, with ĕr becoming lowered to ar by the 17th century, the laxing of ō, and excrescent l; ergo
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Example Sentences

The argument here is, you observe, that because an apple in the course of nature rots soon after it mellows, argal a man cannot mellow his spirit with culture without decaying soon afterwards.

On Thursday night Fisher had come up behind him; argal, he must follow him now.

And being the natural drink of man, ergo—or, as our great national poet Shakespeare puts the word in the mouth of one of his clowns, argal—it is the natural drink of boys.”

There was never perhaps a more extraordinary syllogism since the argal of Shakespeare’s gravedigger.

Thompson had shot a fine argal or Rocky Mountain sheep that morning, and the broiled steaks were giving forth a most acceptable odor.

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