Using the link to the "bartleby" reference led me to todays' word of the day there: [red]objurgate,[/red] defined there as to scold or rebuke sharply; berate.

Said Ogden Nash:
I objurgate the centipede,
A bug we do not really need.
At sleepy-time he beats a path
Straight to the bedroom or the bath.
You always wallop where he's not,
Or, if he is, he makes a spot.

Wonder whether this post belongs under words, or wordplay, or poetry.

I just had to look up the definition for today's word of the day on Bartleby! It definitely caught my eye.

argy-bargy
NOUN: pl. ar·gy-bar·gies
Chiefly British Slang A lively or disputatious discussion.
ETYMOLOGY: Scots, reduplication of argie, argument, from argue

Cute word!

The newspapers revived that word at the beginning of the 80s and used it to describe the Falklands war.