argufy

Example Sentences

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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 Overend, William Heysham

It won't do to argufy here, I tell you.

From Poor Jack by Marryat, Frederick

"You're here to dig the hole where mademoiselle chooses; not to argufy."

From White Lies by Reade, Charles

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 Morton, Thomas

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 Farnol, Jeffery