argufy
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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He wished to know what fault he had committed, and was told not to "argufy."
From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Bartholomew Sastrow
You argufy like a lawyer, shipmate, there’s no mistake about that; but you can’t persuade me that you believe a single word of what you’ve been sayin’.
From The Missing Merchantman by William Heysham Overend
You’d better argufy with ’em, and bring that p’int home to ’em, Mr. Barnes.”
From Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America by H. W. G. Hyrst
“Of coorse, an’ a snooze when ye’re sleepy; but don’t let’s git too pheelosophical, daddy; it an’t good for digestion to argufy on a empty stummik.
From Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
She evinced a similar disposition to argufy with me, which I avoided by either laughing or yielding.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 by Rowland Edmund Prothero, Baron Ernle
Morse argufied from one Oregon border to another and blanketed the state with TV spots.
From Time Magazine Archive
De Lord argufied wid him but de crab wouldn' listen, en he say he gwine put hit on.
From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by La Salle Corbell Pickett
As neither bloke cud stand alone, they leaned 'n' argufied Which was the patient sufferer oo's turn it was to ride.
From 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse by Edward Dyson
We argufied over him for an hour, and it seemed all to no purpose, he refusing to budge an inch, saying he weighed two hundred and twenty pounds, and was better off in the attic.
From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne
Zur, I have argufied the topic, and it wou'dn't be pratty—zo I can't.
From Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden by Thomas Morton
To begin with, for there’s no use argufying on an empty stomach, are you hungry, eh?”
From On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story by William Heysham Overend
If ever there was an iniquity on this earth it's a State Church, and all the argufying in the world won't put that out of me.”
From Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
"So then they fell to argufying and talking a lot o' stuff."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 by Various
He would not admit that he was afraid of her, and that despite all theoretical argufying, he deemed her above him in rank.
From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
Lem'me tell you the Gord's truth; argufying with lie-yers is wuss than shootin' at di-dappers, and that is sport I don't hanker after.
From At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
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