![]() I do however remember Arglebargle appearing in the 1969 Harvard Lampoon spoof Bored of the Rings: You are grounded.Īlso a Brit who is 52 and has a semi-autistic obsession with words and has never heard arglebargle used in conversation or writing and also misread it as argie-bargie which would be a fracas, brawl or particularly noisy and violent verbal argument and is quite common particularly in London – IIRC the curry house in the popular BBC soap Eastenders is for instance called the Argie-Bargie (or perhaps -Bhaji I’ve never actually seen it spelled). A couple of years ago, Alex Beam wrote in a New York Times op-ed about conflicts in the Episcopal church, “The schismatics invoke endless biblical argle-bargle to defend their un-Christian bigotry.” And just last week, a commenter on the Portland (Oregon) Mercury website humorously responded to a silly season article about how breakfast is overrated: “Shame on you and all those who truck with such joy-murdering argle-bargle.”īottom line, there is life in argle-bargle (I like that version better), so I say have some fun with it. One time he criticized Attorney General Eric Holder because “he thinks this isn’t nearly enough racial argy-bargy” another, he ripped an Obama energy ad for “endless stream of intellectual jibber-jabber and nonsensical argy-bargy.”Įlsewhere, the terms appear only intermittently. One veritable fount of spottings is the right-wing National Review, especially its writer Jonah Goldberg, who prefers the argy-bargy form and uses it incessantly. Naturally, this led me to look into the investigate the popularity of argle-bargle and argy-bargy in these parts. Originally meaning a squabble, argument, or bandying of words–it rises from a Scottish variant of argue–its meaning has broadened to include meaningless talk or writing, nonsense. Today, he presents a British phrase, argle-bargle, and notes: Sheldon then says, "Do you know why they call it jibber-jabber?" and then Penny says, "Oh my God now you're going to jibber-jabber about jibber-jabber!" The information is never revealed by Sheldon so that is the reason so many people have been looking up the meaning and looking for how the phrase came into being.In his always illuminating Baltimore Sun blog, “You don’t Say,” John McIntyre offers a word of the week. Just to offer a reason for so many google hits showing up on The Big Bang Theory episode "The Engagement Reaction" Penny and Sheldon are having a conversation in the laundry room when she implies that he engages in "jibber-jabber" frequently.BenediktWildenhain ( talk) 11:02, 29 July 2011 (UTC) Reply ![]() T without this article mentioning the term is just confusing. I would suggest to restore the previous article. ![]() T", but currently there is no reference in the article about Mr.
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