argle-barglen.
Disputatious argument, bandying of words, wrangling.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun]
pleac1275
distancec1325
stance14..
in controversyc1432
disceptation1447
disputation1489
disception1492
concertation1509
controversity1528
contending1561
fending and proving1583
digladiation?1591
bandying1599
contestation1602
controverting1610
wrangling1612
contesting1616
rixation1623
contestion1632
controversarya1635
contest1642
vitilitigation1647
ergoteering1687
sparring1755
hash1789
controversying1865
argle-bargle1872
wringle-wrangle1882
argy-bargy1887
polemicizing1948
va-et-vient1959
1872 A. J. Cupples Tappy's Chicks 252 During these days of ‘argle bargle’, as our smith's wife called it.
a1881 Carlyle in W. A. Knight Retrospects (1904) 15 I have for a long time given up the argle-bargle of metaphysics.
1927 Observer 11 Dec. 15/2 Can they..stand up to a good and sufficient argle-bargle that lasts for the best part of three hours?
Derivatives
ˈargy-ˈbargy v. and n. (also argue-bargue) (originally Scottish).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun]
pleac1275
distancec1325
stance14..
in controversyc1432
disceptation1447
disputation1489
disception1492
concertation1509
controversity1528
contending1561
fending and proving1583
digladiation?1591
bandying1599
contestation1602
controverting1610
wrangling1612
contesting1616
rixation1623
contestion1632
controversarya1635
contest1642
vitilitigation1647
ergoteering1687
sparring1755
hash1789
controversying1865
argle-bargle1872
wringle-wrangle1882
argy-bargy1887
polemicizing1948
va-et-vient1959
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > contend, dispute, argue [verb (intransitive)]
flitec900
witherc1000
disputea1225
pleadc1275
strive1320
arguec1374
tolyc1440
toilc1450
wrestlec1450
altercate1530
disagree1534
dissent1538
contend1539
controvert1563
wrangle?1570
contestate?1572
to fend and prove?1578
contest1603
vie1604
controverse1605
discept1639
ergot1653
digladiatea1656
misprove1662
spar1698
argufy1804
spat1809
to cross swords1816
argle1823
to bandy words1828
polemize1828
controversialize1841
caffle1851
polemicize1881
ergotize1883
argy-bargy1887
cag1919
snack1956
1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. at Argewe The terms argie-bargie, argie, and bargie, are applied to such contentions.
1888 J. M. Barrie Auld Licht Idylls 35 I'se nae time to argy-bargy wi' ye.
1905 H. G. Wells Kipps i. ii An occasional argey-bargey that sprang up between Carshot and Buggins at dinner.
1906 W. De Morgan Joseph Vance xxiii He argue-bargues with you like a winkle that won't come out of its shell.
1922 Blackwood's Mag. July 65/1 Do not argy-bargy with such scoundrels.
1948 J. B. Priestley Linden Tree ii. i 'Avin' a proper argy-bargy in 'ere, aren't you? Losing your tempers too.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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