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
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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
Whatever you collogue about, all I say is, that I don't like a bone in the same Nanny Peety's body.
From The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton
It sufficed for him to recognize her, as men, without start or surprise, absolutely and infallibly do recognize and collogue with the creatures of their delirium.
From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell
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
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
After which harangue he collogued amiably with his patient, and said he would come instantly.
From Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill
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
But for curtchying and complimenting and colloguing, thank ye kindly!”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
Jael ran to Little, and told him that villain, who had escaped from Raby Hall, had been in the works colloguing with one of the men.
From Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade
"Now who in the name of wonder, sir," said Hinge, "do you think is down here colloguing together?"
From In Direst Peril by David Christie Murray
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
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 E. (Edith) Nesbit
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