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Definition of "collogue" []

  • To be on friendly or intimate terms with someone. (verb-intransitive)
  • To consult or confer with someone. (verb-intransitive)
  • To chat. (verb-intransitive)
  • Chiefly Upper Southern U.S. To conspire; intrigue: "I'm satisfied they're colloguing to beat me out of my place” ( Dialect Notes). (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "collogue" in a sentence
  • ""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."
  • "But first I want to swing it back to my collogue Mary Snow, who is up in Michigan."
  • "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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