argify

Verb

argufy (third-person singular simple present argufies, present participle argufying, simple past and past participle argufied)

1. (colloquial, intransitive) To argue without any aim; to dispute; to disagree.
   • Mrs. Sudberry […] began to argufy with us, touching our going off the premises, and upon my soul, talked over the thing in such a moving manner, every now and then stopping to sob, that if it had not been doing an injury to Mr. Skain here, I could have found in my heart to have left um.1776, Samuel Jackson Pratt, chapter 72, in Liberal Opinions, volume 4, London: G. Robinson and J. Bew, pages 42–43

   Synonyms:

   wrangle

2. (colloquial, transitive) To dispute (a point, fact, etc.), to argue about (something).
   • “Why then you are his mistress, and a kept lady to all intents and purposes; so what signifies argufying the matter; […]”1804, Amelia Opie, chapter 17, in Adeline Mowbray, Boston: S.G. Goodrich, published 1827, page 140
3. (ambitransitive, archaic, colloquial) To reason (something) out, to fully consider, think through.
   • […] this Lubberly Whelp here says I talk like a Fool; and sure I have not used the Sea this Thirty Years, but I can Argufie any thing as proper as he can.1698, Edward Ward, A Trip to Jamaica, London, page 11
4. (archaic, colloquial, transitive) To persuade (someone) through argument.
   • She was thinkin I might find things turned around and changed about so till I wouldn’t hardly know the country, but still she wouldn’t argufy me out of makin the trip.1898, Francis Bartow Lloyd, Sketches of Country Life, Birmingham, AL: Press of Roberts & Son, page 14
5. (archaic, colloquial, transitive) To weary (someone) with arguing.
   • “Lord, how glad I’ll be to git rid o’ him!” Peters said in an undertone to Hite. “He hev mighty nigh argufied me ter death,—’bout sperits, an’ witches, an’ salvation, an’ law, an’ craps, an’ horse-flesh, an’ weather signs. […] ”1895, Mary Noailles Murfree (as Charles Egbert Craddock), “The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain” in The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, p. 154
6. (archaic, colloquial, transitive) To be evidence of (something).
   • [S]he no ſooner ſet eyes on him than ſhe ſent me out; vvhich argufy’d no good, you'll ſay; […]1780, [Sophia] Lee, The Chapter of Accidents: A Comedy, […], London: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene [iii], page 53

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