collogue

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We'll draw two chairs up to the fire and have a real collogue, that we will Yes, that we will," said Kathleen.

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  1. intransitive verb To be on friendly or intimate terms with someone.
  2. intransitive verb To consult or confer with someone.
  3. intransitive verb To chat.

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  • We'll draw two chairs up to the fire and have a real collogue, that we will Yes, that we will," said Kathleen. —  The Rebel of the School
  • It was impossible for his old friends and retainers to visit him in the solitude of his grand bedroom; but it was perfectly easy, not only for Squire Murphy and Squire Fitzgerald, and half the other squireens of the neighborhood, to slip into the barn and have a "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
  • "The cackling old hen she began to collogue, —  Two Suffolk Friends
  • Oh, he's gone off to collogue with Mahbub. —  Kim
  • Now the artful young rogue, while they held their collogue, —  The Man from Snowy River
 

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  1. Perhaps alteration (influenced by Latin colloquī, to converse) of colleague, to enter into an alliance, from Old French colleguer, from Latin colligāre, to collect (influenced by Old French collegue, colleague); see colligate.

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  1. English dial. contr. clogue; apparently a modification of *colloque, from Latin colloqui, speak together, the form being influenced by colleague.
 

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