collogue
English
Etymology
First attested in 1590s (as colloguing), presumably from colleague (“to associate”) and French colloque (“secret meeting”), from Latin colloquium (English colloquy), possibly influenced by dialogue.[1]
Ultimately from Latin collega (“a partner in office”)[2] + Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “speech; oration; discourse”), perhaps partly via Latin loquor (“I speak”)[3].
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɒˈləʊɡ/
Verb
collogue (third-person singular simple present collogues, present participle colloguing, simple past and past participle collogued)
- (intransitive) To simulate belief.
- (transitive) To coax; to flatter.
- (rare) To talk privately or secretly; to conspire.
- 1937, Helen Simpson, Under Capricorn (fiction):
- Ay, well, what I say - " Flusky frowned, endeavouring to put into words just what he did say, when he collogued with his own thoughts. "What I say: in a country where everything's to do, the hands has a chance to put themselves equal with the head."
- 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner (fiction), William Blackwood and Sons:
- You let Dunsey have it, sir? And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?
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References
- “collogue” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
- collega in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- loquor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Bryan A. Garner (2009) Garner’s Modern American Usage, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, collogue, page 165
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