argufy
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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"Miss Prue and her pa do argufy to beat the band," Nancy remarked to Jenny the cook as she waited for hot cakes.
From The Little Red Chimney Being the Love Story of a Candy Man by Leonard, Mary Finley
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 Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle
"You're here to dig the hole where mademoiselle chooses; not to argufy."
From White Lies by Reade, Charles
Theological wrangles belong essentially to a pioneer people: an earnest, stubbornly honest people, whose lives are given over to a battle with the elements and the brute forces of Nature, always argufy.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers by Hubbard, Elbert
It ain't in me to argufy wi' 'ee, and, maybe, tear both our hearts.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley
Morse argufied from one Oregon border to another and blanketed the state with TV spots.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Morton, Thomas
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 Murfree, Mary Noailles
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 Osbourne, Lloyd
De Lord argufied wid him but de crab wouldn' listen, en he say he gwine put hit on.
From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by Pickett, La Salle Corbell
No, if ever there was a gentleman—it's not a bit of use argufying that all men are ekal.
From Fated to Be Free by Ingelow, Jean
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 Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
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 Paine, Albert Bigelow
"So then they fell to argufying and talking a lot o' stuff."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 by Various
I have ’eard more argufying and quarrelling about sea-sarpints than about almost anything else.
From The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)
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