argufy

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To argue without any aim

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

   • “But not in argufying over facts,” retorted Trunnell. “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 […]”
   • They discussed, you see, they didn’t argufy. What’s the difference? Well, when you start to argufy about something with other people, you don’t want to find out what the best idea is. You want to make them accept your idea.
2. 2

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

   • “Why then you are his mistress, and a kept lady to all intents and purposes; so what signifies argufying the matter; […]”
   • “Well, it’s of no use argufying the pint,” said the butler, after a moment’s pause. “Here is Mr. Monroe’s address: perhaps when you have seen him, you will arrive at new inclusions.”
   • He […] passed judgment upon the social order without stint, even occasionally to argufying economics with his master, the Baron, as he brushed his breech.
3. 3

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

   • […] 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.
   • I have argufied the topic, and it wou’dn’t be pratty […]
   • I then proceeded to argufy the question; and, after considerable discussion, both in the affirmative and negative, I came unanimously to the conclusion […]
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   1. 4

      To persuade (someone) through argument.

      • She was thinkin I might find things turned around and changed about so till I wouldn’t hardly know the country, but still she wouldn’t argufy me out of makin the trip.
   2. 5

      To weary (someone) with arguing.

   3. 6

      To be evidence of (something).

      • [S]he no ſooner ſet eyes on him than ſhe ſent me out; vvhich argufy’d no good, you'll ſay; […]
   4. 7

      To be of importance or relevance

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

      • Well, now who wins?—why, still the same— / For Sal has lost another game. / “I’ve done, (she mutter’d;) I was saying, / “It did not argufy my playing. / “Some folks will win, they cannot chuse, / “But think or not think—some must lose.
      • “[…] Moreover, Ma’am,” says I, “what does it argufy,” says I, “taking on so now, when the deed’s done;[”] but, poor soul! she only cried the more for that.
      • ‘[…] not that [the 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.’

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