argufy
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Now, Barnabas," exclaimed his father, beginning to rasp his fingers to and fro across his great, square, shaven chin, "why argufy?
From The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol
It ain't in me to argufy wi' 'ee, and, maybe, tear both our hearts.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell
I arn’t got no time to argufy about that, my lad.
From Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days by W. (William) Rainey
“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
He hang 'roun' de co'te house at Livingston an' listen to de lawyers argufy.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration
Morse argufied from one Oregon border to another and blanketed the state with TV spots.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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
“I’ve no time for argufying, miss,” she said as she put the bonnets carefully back into their boxes.
From The Hawthorns A Story about Children by Amy Walton
He admitted that much once when we were argufying.
From The Snow-Burner by Henry Oyen
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
He was the central sun below stairs, and passed judgment upon the social order without stint, even occasionally to argufying economics with his master, the Baron, as he brushed his breech.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators by Elbert Hubbard
They were strung along the rail, and each one had his glass, or his neighbor's, and was pointing and discoursing and argufying and having a beautiful time.
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Albert Bigelow Paine
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