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argle-bargled

argle-bargled is the simple past and past participle of argle-bargle.

Meaning of argle-bargle

Verb

argle-bargle (third-person singular simple present argle-bargles, present participle argle-bargling, simple past and past participle argle-bargled)

  1. (slang) To argue.
    • Last night ye haggled and argle-bargled like an apple-wife; and then passed me your word, and gave me your hand to back it; and ye ken very well what was the upshot. Be damned to your word!1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Captain Knuckles Under”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company...
    Synonyms:
    wringle-wrangle

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Questions about argle-bargled

What is argle-bargled the simple past and past participle of?
Argle-bargled is the simple past and past participle of argle-bargle.

Words near argle-bargled in the dictionary

  1. Argirades
  2. Argive
  3. Argives
  4. argle-bargle
  5. argle-bargle morble whoosh
  6. argle-bargled
  7. argle-bargles
  8. argle-bargling
  9. arglist
  10. arglists
  11. argmax

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