argufy

You’d better argufy with ’em, and bring that p’int home to ’em, Mr. Barnes.”

From Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America by H. W. G. Hyrst

Not as we need argufy, because it wouldn’t be safe to try that game.

From King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale by J. B. Greene

She evinced a similar disposition to argufy with me, which I avoided by either laughing or yielding.

From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 by Rowland Edmund Prothero, Baron Ernle

I arn’t got no time to argufy about that, my lad.

From Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days by W. (William) Rainey

He wished to know what fault he had committed, and was told not to "argufy."

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Bartholomew Sastrow

Morse argufied from one Oregon border to another and blanketed the state with TV spots.

From Time Magazine Archive

Zur, I have argufied the topic, and it wou'dn't be pratty—zo I can't.

From Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden by Thomas Morton

As neither bloke cud stand alone, they leaned    'n' argufied Which was the patient sufferer oo's turn it was   to ride.

From 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse by Edward Dyson

He hev mighty nigh argufied me ter death,—'bout sperits, an' witches, an' salvation, an' law, an' craps, an' horse-flesh, an' weather signs.

From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree

We argufied over him for an hour, and it seemed all to no purpose, he refusing to budge an inch, saying he weighed two hundred and twenty pounds, and was better off in the attic.

From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne

Good morrow to you, cousin Wright; I can't stand argufying here about charity, which won't plough my ground, nor bring me a jot nearer to the ten thousand pounds' legacy: so good morrow to you.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 02 by Maria Edgeworth

"I have promised mother," said Bet; "there is no use argufying on that point."

From A Girl of the People by L. T. Meade

No, sink me, when 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.

From Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

If ever there was an iniquity on this earth it's a State Church, and all the argufying in the world won't put that out of me.”

From Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

You're both argufying a good bit too fast there, Whilst that which you stand on seems wobbling.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 17, 1891 by Various