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 come, you make me only the more earnest to collogue with you.
From Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Nathaniel Hawthorne
And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?
From Silas Marner by George Eliot
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
If they want to collogue an’ palaver, why don’t they go som’ers else?”
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 by Various
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 Israel Zangwill
After which harangue he collogued amiably with his patient, and said he would come instantly.
From Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill
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 Samuel Hopkins Adams
Betty went so far as to accuse her of colloguing with him against Alfred, and of "setting her cap at master," which accusation elicited no direct reply, but stinging innuendoes hours after.
From Hard Cash by Charles Reade
In the shade of the great sails, we stood or sat about, and our decks showed an unusual animation in the groups of men colloguing earnestly—strangers met by the way.
From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by David W. Bone
She also swore that she had seen him colloguing with another man, who had been concerned in a former attempt on Mr. Little, and captured, but had escaped from Raby Hall.
From Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade
They stood colloguing in the twilight for ten minutes more.
From Elizabeth's Campaign by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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 Ian Maclaren
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