argufy
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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
Now, Barnabas," exclaimed his father, beginning to rasp his fingers to and fro across his great, square, shaven chin, "why argufy?
From The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol
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
"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 Mary Finley Leonard
I arn’t got no time to argufy about that, my lad.
From Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days by W. (William) Rainey
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
De Lord argufied wid him but de crab wouldn' listen, en he say he gwine put hit on.
From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by La Salle Corbell Pickett
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
"So then they fell to argufying and talking a lot o' stuff."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 by Various
Nobody is going to listen to "argufying" if he can help it.
From The Prisoner by Alice Brown
I'm to wed him—them's the terms—there ain't no use argufying, Hester; but it's all plain—Dent will clear Will, and keep out of prison hisself, for he's as clever as he's bad.
From A Girl of the People by L. T. Meade
Look you here, Bet—what's the good of argufying, and angering a fellow what's your own father?
From A Girl of the People by L. T. Meade
He admitted that much once when we were argufying.
From The Snow-Burner by Henry Oyen
