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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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 Charles Reade
A sudden, secret, important look, as if he were colloguing with some one vanquished in argument, crossed his face.
From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree
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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