Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word collogued.

Examples

  • But, because they knew and loved the lama, because he was an old man, because he sought the Way, because he was their guest, and because he collogued long of nights with the head-priest — as free-thinking a metaphysician as ever split one hair into seventy — they murmured assent.

    Kim 2003

  • 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.

    Average Jones Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • It was a remarkably idle and unobtrusive shop and yet money flowed into it without stint, mysteriously and unostentatiously, the conduits of its flow being certain modest and retiring Arab visitors in long brown or white _haiks_, with check cotton head-dresses girt with ropes of camel-hair, who collogued with the honest tradesman and departed as silently and unobtrusively as they came ....

    Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

  • Through the early months of the year the active politicians earnestly collogued among themselves about possible candidates, and it seems there was little sign among them of that general confidence in Lincoln which a little while before had been recognised as prevailing in the country.

    Abraham Lincoln Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood 1904

  • Way, because he was their guest, and because he collogued long of nights with the head-priest -- as free-thinking a metaphysician as ever split one hair into seventy -- they murmured assent.

    Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Had I not sat with Malays, and collogued with negroes, and eaten ancient shark with Hindoos?

    A Tramp's Notebook Morley Roberts 1899

  • One journal protested that it was not possible to believe in Dyck Calhoun's guilt; that his outward habits were known to all, and were above suspicion, although he had collogued -- though never secretly, so far as the world knew -- with some of the advanced revolutionary spirits.

    No Defense, Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897

  • One journal protested that it was not possible to believe in Dyck Calhoun's guilt; that his outward habits were known to all, and were above suspicion, although he had collogued -- though never secretly, so far as the world knew -- with some of the advanced revolutionary spirits.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • One journal protested that it was not possible to believe in Dyck Calhoun's guilt; that his outward habits were known to all, and were above suspicion, although he had collogued -- though never secretly, so far as the world knew -- with some of the advanced revolutionary spirits.

    No Defense, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • However, even the wisdom of a political boss is not infallible, and despite the succulent graces of the barbecue numbers of the ascetic and jeans-clad elder worthies, though fed to repletion, collogued unhappily together among the ox-teams and canvas-hooded wagons on the slope, commenting sourly on the frivolity of the dance.

    Una Of The Hill Country 1911 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.