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argle-bargling

argle-bargling is the present participle and gerund 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-bargling

What is argle-bargling the present participle and gerund of?
Argle-bargling is the present participle and gerund of argle-bargle.

Words near argle-bargling in the dictionary

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

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