Definitions
Etymologies
- Originated in Scottish, where argle refers to argument, and bargle to reduplication. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He was obviously a bit drunk, clearly excited to have his evening suddenly include not the old argle-bargle with his disenchanted wife but a bit of thrilling alone time with a pretty young college girl.”
“Here's his charmless admission that he prefers American girls to English ones because they put out without a lot of upfront argle-bargle.”
The Washington Post: Christopher Hitchens's "Hitch-22," reviewed by Diana McLellan
“In that context, Williams appeared on Fox two days later, as part of a six-minute segment focusing on O'Reilly's comments -- and the argle-bargle that ensued -- on The View.”
The Huffington Post: Bill Lichtenstein: NPR Conducting Investigation Into Juan Williams Firing
“I know some Hillary supporters are just not going to get over it, all that argle-bargle is alive and well at hillaryis44. com”
Dem Committees Still Lead In Total Cash, Despite Surge For RNC
“July 11, 2008 at 6:03 am i kant ride teh coasters…dey maek mi go argle-bargle.”
Et tu, … - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Well, being that they gat paid for writing it, slightly less silly than that rambling argle-bargle you just posted…”
“And enough of that peacekeeping argle-bargle... let's take it to these jihadi donkeyheads.”
“Grecian argle-bargle from HPL, obviously modelled on Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales, and just as obviously a mistaken choice by Lovecraft.”
“It is also because I often think the evolution defender simply does not make the correct points in reply to the torrent of creationist argle-bargle.”
“Enough with this sententious argle-bargle and circular arguments.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘argle-bargle’.
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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Scots Reduplicative Words
A list of reduplicative words gleaned from Scottish sources, primarily Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841, and citations therein.
For other reduplicative and simil...hist-hast, hobby-tobby, argie-bargie, argle-bargle, argol-bargolous, bick and birr, blitter-blatter, bringle-brangle, brittle-brattle, buf-baf, carrywarry, catterbatter and 49 more...
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This Higgledy-Piggledy Raggle-Taggle ...
flimflam, higgledy-piggledy, raggle-taggle, heebie-jeebies, bric-a-brac, tip-top, holus-bolus, hocus-pocus, hobson-jobson, riffraff, artsy-fartsy, harum-scarum and 28 more...
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Words for Nonsense, Blather, and Trash
tommyrot, poppycock, moonshine, codswallop, hogwash, balderdash, gobbledygook, malarkey, flapdoodle, bunkum, hooey, flimshaw and 30 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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hernesheir Also argie-bargie. Cf. the adjective argol-bargolous, quarrelsome about trifles. May 26, 2011
mortone It's of Scottish origin and often refers to arguments that are particularly pointless.
Jul 8, 2009