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Cudgeling (n.) is persuasion that skips the middle.
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Cudgeling (n.) wins the point and loses the room.
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Cudgeling (n.) settles which of you stops talking, never which of you was right.
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Cudgeling (n.) needs no training and no aim, only a stick and someone slower than you.