Argufy

Quick meaning: Argufy is a verb meaning (intransitive) To argue without any aim; to dispute; to disagree.

Meaning

(intransitive) To argue without any aim; to dispute; to disagree.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To dispute (a point, fact, etc.), to argue about (something).
2. (ambitransitive, archaic) To reason (something) out, to fully consider, think through.
3. (transitive, archaic) To persuade (someone) through argument.
4. (transitive, archaic) To weary (someone) with arguing.
5. (transitive, archaic) To be evidence of (something).
6. (intransitive, archaic) To be of importance or relevance; to make a difference, to be of use.

Example Sentences

‘Aren’t we two very foolish old quilts,’ he said, ‘to be argufying the past? […]’

“Why then you are his mistress, and a kept lady to all intents and purposes; so what signifies argufying the matter; […]”

He […] passed judgment upon the social order without stint, even occasionally to argufying economics with his master, the Baron, as he brushed his breech.

[…] 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.

Word Forms

• argufies
• argufying
• argufied
• argify

Synonyms for argufy

Depending on context, synonyms include wrangle, dispute, quarrel, altercate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dispute, quarrel, altercate, question, argue, squabble.

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