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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
argle-bargle .
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Examples
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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.
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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.
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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"Heavens!" he cried, "you talk of marriage as though it were a contract between two shop-keepers to be argle-bargled over.
Nancy Stair A Novel Elinor Macartney Lane 1886
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