单词 | argle |
释义 | † ˈargle, v. Obs. exc. dial. Also in the reduplicated argle-bargle, argol bargol. [prob. a popular perversion of argue, or confusion of that word with haggle.] 1. trans. To argue obstinately, dispute about.
1589Hay any Work (1844) 11, I will neuer stand argling the matter any more. 1827D. Moir Mansie Wauch 78 Me and the minister were just argle-bargling some few words on the doctrine of the Camel and the Eye of the Needle. 2. intr. To bandy words, dispute, wrangle.
1823Galt Entail I. vii. 53 ‘Weel, weel,’ said the Laird, ‘dinna let us argol bargol about it.’ 1827J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 336 But I hate a' argling and hargle-bargling. 1861Ramsay Reminisc. Ser. ii. 99 And all argle-bargling, as if at the end of a fair. |

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