collogue
Americanverb (used without object)
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to confer secretly.
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to plot mischief; conspire.
verb
Etymology
Origin of collogue
First recorded in 1595–1605; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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But he is kind of a friend and a collogue, so he does recommend him, in a non-recommending way.
From Salon • Mar. 24, 2024
But, Monsieur, no vonder dat you vere collogue, Since selling de contre be now all de vogue, You be but von fool after seventeen rogue.
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Browning, William Ernst
D'you think I could come marching into James Town and collogue with you in your counting-house?
From Salute to Adventurers by Buchan, John
At night I see the two hold a sort of a collogue abaft the wheel, when I was on my trick at the helm.
From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. by Various
But come, you make me only the more earnest to collogue with you.
From Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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