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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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 Carleton, William
And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?
From Silas Marner by Eliot, George
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
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
After which harangue he collogued amiably with his patient, and said he would come instantly.
From Ghetto Comedies by Zangwill, Israel
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 Reade, Charles
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
"Now who in the name of wonder, sir," said Hinge, "do you think is down here colloguing together?"
From In Direst Peril by Murray, David Christie
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 Bone, David W.
"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 Meade, L. T.
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