argufying

Country people are prone to "argufying" -- the greater and more weighty the question, the more ready are the bucolic Solons to engage with it.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Elbert Hubbard 1885

News at Eleven: Against what he William Empson took to be the prevailing modern orthodoxy of Symbolist poetry--'the main rule is that a poet must never say what he wants to say directly . . . he must invent a way of hinting at it by metaphors, which are then called images'--he promoted what he called 'argufying' in poetry, 'the kind of arguing we do in ordinary life, usually to get our own way'.

Archive 2006-08-01 Rus Bowden 2006

News at Eleven: Against what he William Empson took to be the prevailing modern orthodoxy of Symbolist poetry--'the main rule is that a poet must never say what he wants to say directly . . . he must invent a way of hinting at it by metaphors, which are then called images'--he promoted what he called 'argufying' in poetry, 'the kind of arguing we do in ordinary life, usually to get our own way'.

August 29th Poetic Ticker Clicking Rus Bowden 2006

Yew eber see the peeps gettin into the argufying about is it eensy weency or itsy bitsy or whut yew said?

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I supposed that I'd go on argufying with him until my own time came to die, and that this was as close as people ever really came to enjoying a life after death.

Now Voyager McMurtry, Larry 2000

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.

Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"

Are you a-thinkin 'any more o' that 'ere tex' that we was a-argufying on t'other arter-noon? '

Odd Amy le Feuvre

"So then they fell to argufying and talking a lot o 'stuff."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various

"But not in argufying over facts," retorted Trunnell.

Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"

This sort of argufying ain't going to carry my mail-bags along the river. '

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915