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collogue

[ kuh-lohg ]

/ kəˈloʊg /

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verb (used without object), col·logued, col·lo·guing. Dialect.

to confer secretly.

to plot mischief; conspire.

Origin of collogue

1595–1605; perhaps blend of collude and dialogue

Words nearby collogue

collocutor, collodi, collodion, collodion baby, collodion process, collogue, colloid, colloid acne, colloid bath, colloid carcinoma, colloid chemistry

Example sentences from the Web for collogue

Collogue, to conspire, talk mysteriously together in low tones, plot mischief.

The Slang Dictionary |John Camden Hotten
So I had to go to the lake and collogue with the old sinner from the point of a jutting-out cape.

Camp Fire Yarns of the Lost Legion |G. Hamilton-Browne
At night I see the two hold a sort of collogue abaft the wheel, when I was on my trick at the helm.

The Green Hand |George Cupples
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 |Various

But come, you make me only the more earnest to collogue with you.

Septimius Felton |Nathaniel Hawthorne

British Dictionary definitions for collogue

collogue

/ (kɒˈləʊɡ) /

verb collogues, colloguing or collogued

(intr usually foll by with) to confer confidentially; intrigue or conspire

Word Origin for collogue

C16: perhaps from obsolete colleague (vb) to be or act as a colleague, conspire, influenced by Latin colloquī to talk with; see colleague