argle-bargle

Meanings

Noun

Verb

Origin

  • 1808 Scottish, from earlier argle (16th century), presumably from argue -le, though possibly from Old Norse (Suio-Gothic) ierga – plus rhyming reduplication, possibly from bargain, found in early variant aurgle-bargain (1720).

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