collogue

present singular third person collogues · participle present colloguing · participle past collogued · past collogued

1. transitiveTo coax (someone); also, to flatter (someone).

   Synonyms: jolly, lay it on thick, puff, blandander, blandish, butter up, cajole, sweeten

2. intransitiveTo simulate belief.
3. intransitiverareTo talk privately or secretly; to conspire.

   You dare to collogue about me with such a [contemnible] manner of speech?!

   2022 November 18, Toontown: Corporate Clash Development Team, The Hires & Heroes Update (v1.3.0)

   4 more examples

   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?

   1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC

   And then it seems that she collogued with her master and heard word of a subtler device.

   1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page 240

   "I see him," said the housemaid. "He was colloguing with the butcher in the yard a bit since. He'd got a brown-paper parcel. Perhaps he got a lift home."

   1904, E[dith] Nesbit, “The Road to Rome; or, The Silly Stowaway”, in New Treasure Seekers, London: Ernest Benn; New York, N.Y.: Coward-McCann, published 1962, →OCLC, page 23

   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."

   1937, Helen Simpson, Under Capricorn