argufy
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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You're the last man I'd have expected to hear argufy for faith without works.
From Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood by George MacDonald
But no sense ov a place, some think, Is this here hill so high,— ’Cos there, full oft, ’tis nation coad, But that don’t argufy.
From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
“Why don’t you mind your own business and go to sleep?” says Common-sense; and as I was too tired to argufy, I made no answer, but went off sound.
From Midnight Webs by George Manville Fenn
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
Not as we need argufy, because it wouldn’t be safe to try that game.
From King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale by J. B. Greene
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
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
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
He hev mighty nigh argufied me ter death,—'bout sperits, an' witches, an' salvation, an' law, an' craps, an' horse-flesh, an' weather signs.
From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree
“I'd admire to see papa argufying with that sweet girl,” she observed to the surrounding silence.
From An Alabaster Box by Stockton Mulford
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
“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
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
"So then they fell to argufying and talking a lot o' stuff."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 by Various
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