v. Obs. exc. dial.; also in the reduplicated argle-bargle, argol bargol. [prob. a popular perversion of argue, or confusion of that word with haggle.]

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  1.  trans. To argue obstinately, dispute about.

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1589.  Hay any Work (1844), 11. I will neuer stand argling the matter any more.

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1827.  D. Moir, Mansie Wauch, 78. Me and the minister were just argle-bargling some few words on the doctrine of the Camel and the Eye of the Needle.

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  2.  intr. To bandy words, dispute, wrangle.

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1823.  Galt, Entail, I. vii. 53. ‘Weel, weel,’ said the Laird, ‘dinna let us argol bargol about it.’

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1827.  J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 336. But I hate a’ argling and hargle-bargling.

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1861.  Ramsay, Reminisc., Ser. II. 99. And all argle-bargling, as if at the end of a fair.

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