Definition of "argufying" [argufying]

• Present participle of argufy. (verb)

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• "Country people are prone to "argufying" -- the greater and more weighty the question, the more ready are the bucolic Solons to engage with it."
• "News at Eleven: Against what he William Empson took to be the prevailing modern orthodoxy of Symbolist poetry--'the main rule is that a poet must never say what he wants to say directly . . . he must invent a way of hinting at it by metaphors, which are then called images'--he promoted what he called 'argufying' in poetry, 'the kind of arguing we do in ordinary life, usually to get our own way'."
• "Yew eber see the peeps gettin into the argufying about is it eensy weency or itsy bitsy or whut yew said?"