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
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
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
But come, you make me only the more earnest to collogue with you.
From Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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
Distinctions of rank were trivial, and gallery held converse with circle, and pit collogued with box.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel
He had spent the morning in the up-stairs library, at the unevadable suggestion of Colonel Graeme, while the colonel and his Roman collogued below.
From Average Jones by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
After which harangue he collogued amiably with his patient, and said he would come instantly.
From Ghetto Comedies by Zangwill, Israel
She told him her sister had found out from the page she had been colloguing with him, and had never treated her like a sister after that.
From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Reade, Charles
He was colloguing with the butcher in the yard a bit since.
From New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
I will have no plotting and colloguing in my house!
From A Little Wizard by Weyman, Stanley J.
After a while, colloguing together, they parted, and I jaloused who the two were, but that nicht I could not be certain.”
From Graham of Claverhouse by Maclaren, Ian
Barker was bending over some of the post papers and reports at his desk, and wondering why on earth the colonel should be colloguing with Snaffle, Crane, Sergeant Fitzroy, and sending for Cassidy and Quinlan.
From Lanier of the Cavalry or, A Week's Arrest by King, Charles
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