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  • verb Present participle of argufy.

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Examples

  • Country people are prone to "argufying" -- the greater and more weighty the question, the more ready are the bucolic Solons to engage with it.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Elbert Hubbard 1885

  • News at Eleven: Against what he William Empson took to be the prevailing modern orthodoxy of Symbolist poetry--'the main rule is that a poet must never say what he wants to say directly . . . he must invent a way of hinting at it by metaphors, which are then called images'--he promoted what he called 'argufying' in poetry, 'the kind of arguing we do in ordinary life, usually to get our own way'.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Rus Bowden 2006

  • News at Eleven: Against what he William Empson took to be the prevailing modern orthodoxy of Symbolist poetry--'the main rule is that a poet must never say what he wants to say directly . . . he must invent a way of hinting at it by metaphors, which are then called images'--he promoted what he called 'argufying' in poetry, 'the kind of arguing we do in ordinary life, usually to get our own way'.

    August 29th Poetic Ticker Clicking Rus Bowden 2006

  • Yew eber see the peeps gettin into the argufying about is it eensy weency or itsy bitsy or whut yew said?

    OMG TEH SPAIDER WUZ - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • I supposed that I'd go on argufying with him until my own time came to die, and that this was as close as people ever really came to enjoying a life after death.

    Now Voyager McMurtry, Larry 2000

  • I finds I'm argufying agin the world, -- agin facts, -- I tries to give in some and let the world get the best o 'the argument.

    Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"

  • Are you a-thinkin 'any more o' that 'ere tex' that we was a-argufying on t'other arter-noon? '

    Odd Amy le Feuvre

  • "So then they fell to argufying and talking a lot o 'stuff."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various

  • "But not in argufying over facts," retorted Trunnell.

    Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"

  • This sort of argufying ain't going to carry my mail-bags along the river. '

    Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

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  • Now (rot the puppy!) to see him sit silent in a corner, when he has tired himself with his mock-majesty and with his argumentation (who so fond of argufying as he?)...

    Mowbray to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

    January 9, 2008