argle-bargle

[ ahr-guhl-bahr-guhl ]

nounChiefly British.

Origin of argle-bargle

1
1870–75; reduplication of argle, variant of argue

Words Nearby argle-bargle

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How to use argle-bargle in a sentence

  • Some of the boys argle-bargle on Sundays, he says, but most of them fight.

    We and the World, Part I | Juliana Horatia Ewing
  • The little things for argle-bargle, the big uns' for smokin', that's what I sez!

    Mad Shepherds | L. P. Jacks

British Dictionary definitions for argle-bargle

argle-bargle

/ (ˌɑːɡəlˈbɑːɡəl) /


noun
  1. another word for argy-bargy

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