collogue
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- verb To use flattery; gloze; flatter.
- verb To confer or converse confidentially and secretly; plot mischief; lay schemes in concert.
- verb To wheedle; flatter.
Examples
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At night I see the two hold a sort of a collogue abaft the wheel, when I was on my trick at the helm.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art.
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But come, you make me only the more earnest to collogue with you.
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The rising of the curtain drew his habitual groan from Potts, and he fled to collogue with the goodly number of honest fellows in the house of music who detested 'squallery.'
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And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?
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There’s been ill-looking tramps enoo’ about the place this last week, to carry off every ham an’ every spoon we’n got; and they all collogue together, them tramps, as it’s a mercy they hanna come and poisoned the dogs and murdered us all in our beds afore we knowed, some Friday night when we’n got the money in th’ house to pay the men.
Note
The word 'collogue' may be related to 'colleague', (to enter into an alliance), from Old French 'colleguer', from Latin 'colligāre' (to collect).
