argle-bargle
Pointless verbal squabbling
Argle-bargle is vigorous but pointless argument or dispute—wrangling without substance.
The word is playful and dismissive, suggesting the talk in question amounts to nothing: The meeting devolved into argle-bargle over trivial procedural matters.
Chiefly British.
Also spelled argy-bargy.
Angry verbal dispute
- squabbleTrivial noisy argument
- bickeringPetty verbal sparring
- wrangleArgue or herd livestock
- altercationHeated verbal dispute
spat · tiff · contretemps · war of words · heated exchange · verbal sparring · loggerheads · back-and-forth
Unintelligible speech or writing
- balderdashSenseless talk or writing
- poppycockFoolish or meaningless talk
- twaddleTrivial, foolish talk
- blatherFoolish, pointless chatter
hogwash · malarkey · piffle · drivel · bunkum · codswallop · flapdoodle · tommyrot
quarrel
Angry verbal dispute
altercation · spat · tiff · contretemps · war of words · heated exchange · verbal sparring · loggerheads · back-and-forth · slanging match
gibberish
Unintelligible speech or writing
- balderdashSenseless talk or writing
- poppycockFoolish or meaningless talk
- twaddleTrivial, foolish talk
blather · hogwash · malarkey · piffle · drivel · bunkum · codswallop · flapdoodle · tommyrot · claptrap
argle-barglelogical argument
Reasoning from premises to conclusion
argle-bargleconsensus
General group agreement
accord · agreement · harmony · concord · meeting of minds
argle-bargleclarity
State of being understandable
sense · substance · precision · perspicuity
argue, argument, arguments, argumentation, argumentative, arguable, arguably, inarguable