Meaning

1 senses

  1. (UK)To argue.

Origin

From Scots, variant of argle-bargle, documented since 1822, presumably due to replacement

From Scots, variant of argle-bargle, documented since 1822, presumably due to replacement of -le (“frequentative”) with -y (“diminutive”), documented since 1857, but without effect on the meaning.

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Forms

argy-bargies, argy-bargying, argy-bargied, argy-bargied
Base formargy-bargy · to argy-bargy
3rd person singularargy-bargies
Present participleargy-bargying
Past simpleargy-bargied
Past participleargy-bargied

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyargy-bargy
he, she, itargy-bargies

Past simpleLesson

all personsargy-bargied

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave argy-bargied
he, she, ithas argy-bargied

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill argy-bargy

Synonyms

2 synonyms
argle-bargleargol-bargol

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
argumentA2argumentationargumentativeariaaridarielariseB1
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