Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To be on friendly or intimate terms with someone.
- intransitive verb To consult or confer with someone.
- intransitive verb To chat.
- intransitive verb Chiefly Upper Southern US To conspire; intrigue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To use flattery; gloze; flatter.
- To confer or converse confidentially and secretly; plot mischief; lay schemes in concert.
- To wheedle; flatter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Archaic or Colloq. To talk or confer secretly and confidentially; to converse, especially with evil intentions; to plot mischief.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
talk privately or secretly; toconspire
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb confer secretly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"collogue," as they expressed it; but also the little gossoons in their ragged trousers and bare feet, and the girleens, with their curly hair, and roguish dark-blue eyes, to scuttle in also.
Light O' the Morning L. T. Meade 1884
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But first I want to swing it back to my collogue Mary Snow, who is up in Michigan.
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[5189] They will crack, counterfeit, and collogue as well as the best, with handkerchiefs, and wrought nightcaps, purses, posies, and such toys: as he justly complained,
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[86] Heretofore learning was graced by judicious scholars, but now noble sciences are vilified by base and illiterate scribblers, that either write for vainglory, need, to get money, or as Parasites to flatter and collogue with some great men, they put cut [87] burras, quisquiliasque ineptiasque.
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Their means is their misery, though they do apply themselves to the times, to lie, dissemble, collogue and flatter their lieges, obey, second his will and commands as much as may be, yet too frequently they miscarry, they fat themselves like so many hogs, as [3696] Aeneas
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The two would collogue for hours; and though at first I did not understand the tongue, I could see that it was the white man who fawned and the black man who bullied.
Prester John 2005
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Now the artful young rogue, while they held their collogue
A Bush Christening 1998
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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. Various
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The two would collogue for hours; and though at first I did not understand the tongue, I could see that it was the white man who fawned and the black man who bullied.
Prester John John Buchan 1907
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They were fit company, '' he added, ` ` for each other, Sir Rashleigh having lost all right to mingle in the society of men of honour; but it was hardly possible two such d--- d rascals should collogue together without mischief to honest people. ''
Rob Roy 1887
ambyellen commented on the word collogue
goodness! i love this word. I want to use it to refer to a conversation between secret lovers.
May 23, 2009
qms commented on the word collogue
Some private exchanges are fraught
As innocent converse is not.
In voices that collogue
Hear treachery's prologue,
The reptilian hiss of a plot.
August 9, 2016
bilby commented on the word collogue
If you insist on rhyming fraught as, well, frot
My ears are far tinner than I thot.
Das veirdness uft speech
Makes my aurals go 'bleeeeccch'
Or perhaps I was just poorly tot?
August 10, 2016
qms commented on the word collogue
My goodness! How do they say this in Hobart? Frafft? Frackit?
Go to the site pasted below and hear some audio examples.
http://www.memidex.com/fraught#audio
It must be the effect of hanging bat-like from the bottom of the planet.
August 10, 2016
bilby commented on the word collogue
Some communications are definitely fraught
when pronunciation is a mere afterthought
so warm up yer dingo
to learn some DownUnder lingo
and make words sound like they bloody well ought!
August 10, 2016