Third person singular or plural of 'argle,' meaning to engage in trivial arguments or pointless disputation.
From the verb 'argle,' derived from the 19th-century English reduplication 'argle-bargle.' The suffix '-es' marks third person singular present tense or plural forms.
Lewis Carroll and other Victorian writers loved 'argle-bargle' because it perfectly captured the sound of meaningless academic arguments—it's basically the onomatopoeia of British pedantry!
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