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Saturday Word: Argle-Bargle
May. 25th, 2024 05:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
med_catArgle-bargle [AHR-guhl-bahr-guhl]
(n.)
- Copious but meaningless talk or writing; utter nonsense.
Reduplication of dialect “argle” a late 16th-century alteration of “argue” -early 19th century
Used in a sentence:
“I’ve never understood how so many people have been duped into supporting that pernicious plutomaniac; just listen to him, it’s all argle-bargle from beginning to end.”
*Related - Argy-bargy:
-Noisy quarrelling or wrangling.
(from The Grandiloquent Word of the Day FB page)
(They've a book out, here: wwnorton.com/books/9781682687994 )
(n.)
- Copious but meaningless talk or writing; utter nonsense.
Reduplication of dialect “argle” a late 16th-century alteration of “argue” -early 19th century
Used in a sentence:
“I’ve never understood how so many people have been duped into supporting that pernicious plutomaniac; just listen to him, it’s all argle-bargle from beginning to end.”
*Related - Argy-bargy:
-Noisy quarrelling or wrangling.
(from The Grandiloquent Word of the Day FB page)
(They've a book out, here: wwnorton.com/books/9781682687994 )
