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Word of the Day - Argle-bargle

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argle-bargle

/ˌärɡəlˈbärɡəl//ˌɑrɡəlˈbɑrɡəl/
noun
1 Copious but meaningless talk or writing; nonsense.
2 another term for argy-bargy

Origin
Early 19th century: reduplication of dialect argle, a late 16th-century alteration of argue.

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Over the years, there has been plenty of argle-bargle put forth here as part of the WotD. One could argue that some words did, occasionally, make sense.

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