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
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
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
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
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
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
"If himsel' was to ken o' me colloguing wi' ye at the door at this 'oor o' the nicht, there wad be Auld Hornie to pay."
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
"Ellen," he continued, addressing his wife, "have you and Terence done colloguing together? for I hear Black Bess coming to the front door."
From Light O' the Morning by L. T. Meade
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
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
He had come for help, and found her colloguing with his enemy.
From Shining Ferry by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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