argufy
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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"You're here to dig the hole where mademoiselle chooses; not to argufy."
From White Lies by Charles Reade
Well, zur, I'll argufy the topic, and then you may wait upon me, and I'll tell ye.
From Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden by Thomas Morton
It won't do to argufy here, I tell you.
From Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat
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
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
Morse argufied from one Oregon border to another and blanketed the state with TV spots.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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
You're both argufying a good bit too fast there, Whilst that which you stand on seems wobbling.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 17, 1891 by Various
Bullinger and Gualterus “were unwilling to contend with these men like fencing-masters,” tired of their argufying; unable to “withdraw our entire confidence from the Bishops.”
From John Knox and the Reformation by Andrew Lang
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
This sort of argufying ain't going to carry my mail-bags along the river.'
From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Mrs. Campbell Praed
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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