argufy

argufy englannista suomeksi

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argufy englanniksi

1. To argue without any aim; to dispute; to disagree.

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2. (quote-book) 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.

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5. To dispute (a point, fact, etc.), to argue about (something).

6. (quote-book)|location=East Aurora, NY|publisher=Roycrofters|page=6|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/no1littlejourney13hubbuoft/page/n21/mode/1up|passage=He (..) passed judgment upon the social order without stint, even occasionally to argufying economics with his master, the Baron, as he brushed his breech.

7. (quote-text)|title=At Swim, Two Boys|chapter=14|page=394|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/atswimtwoboys00onei/page/394/mode/1up|publisher=Scribner|location=London|passage=‘Aren’t we two very foolish old quilts,’ he said, ‘to be argufying the past? (..)’

8. To reason (something) out, to fully consider, through.

9. (quote-text)|title=A Trip to Jamaica|url=https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67527.0001.001|page=11|location=London|passage=(..) 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.

10. (quote-book) Now, stop a moment. Let’s argufy. Couldn’t be burglary. Yes, it could—body burglary!”

11. To persuade (someone) through argument.

12. To weary (someone) with arguing.

13. 1895, (w) (as Charles Egbert Craddock), “The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain” in ''The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories,'' Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, p.(nbs)154,https://archive.org/details/mysteryofwitchfa00cradiala/page/153/mode/1up

“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. (..)”

14. To be evidence of (something).

15. (RQ:Sophia Lee Accidents)

16. To be of importance or relevance; to a difference, to be of use.

17. (quote-book) Moreover, Ma’am,” says I, “what does it argufy,” says I, “on|taking on so now, when the deed’s done;” but, poor soul! she only cried the more for that.

18. (quote-book) not that horse is wicious—far from it, only play—full of play, I may say, though to be sure, if a man gets spilt it don’t argufy much whether it’s done from play or from wice.’