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argle-bargle
noun 1verb 1
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1ADJ.
legalistic
Definitions
noun
1
A verbal argument.
Wendell and I have had our share of argle-bargles about the morality of hunting.
As I have said, the real rationale of today’s opinion, whatever disappearing trail of its legalistic argle-bargle one chooses to follow, is that DOMA is motivated by '"bare . . . desire to harm"' couples in same-sex marriages.
verb
1
To argue.
Last night ye haggled and argle-bargled like an apple-wife; and then passed me your word, and gave me your hand to back it; and ye ken very well what was the upshot. Be damned to your word!
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noun — a verbal dispute
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Wendell and I have had our share of argle-bargles about the morality of hunting.
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As I have said, the real rationale of today’s opinion, whatever disappearing trail of its legalistic argle-bargle one chooses to follow, is that DOMA is motivated by '"bare . . . desire to harm"' coup
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Last night ye haggled and argle-bargled like an apple-wife; and then passed me your word, and gave me your hand to back it; and ye ken very well what was the upshot. Be damned to your word!
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