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Argie bargie or argy bargy, pronounced "R G bar G" is a British slang term meaning to argue contentiously.
It was used during the Falklands war in a newspaper headline to describe the actions of the Argentines (so-called "argies").
It has been suggested that the term derives from the Scots "argle-bargle" where "argle" refers to argument, and bargle is reduplication.<ref>http://www.word-detective.com/010506.html</ref>
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