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Definition of Argufying
1. argufy [v] - See also: argufy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Argufying
Literary usage of Argufying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1913)
"returned the other with a good-humored grin, "I've been talkin' myself hoarse
all day and I'm not in the humor for any more argufying." "See here, neighbor ..."
2. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"Wb. Gl. ' " He's ower fond o' argufying;" too ready to gainsay or dispute.' Ib.
Arles, sb. Earnest-money given to a servant on concluding the contract of ..."
3. Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Helps (1871)
"But to give another instance. There is Delta. He is, to use a phrase once used
very aptly in Punch, an " argufying beggar." Now I do not in general like ..."
4. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"This word has a place in several of the English glossaries. In this country it
is only heard among the most illiterate. argufying. Arguing. ..."
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