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Collogue

Definition: Collogue

Collogue

Verb

1. Confer secretly.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "collogue" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

Etymology: Collogue \Col*logue"\, intransitive verb. [Compare to Latin colloqui and English dialogue. Compare to Collocution.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: Collogue

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Flattery

Verb: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one;s bent; lick the dust.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Collogue

Specialty definitions using "collogue": TO COLLOGUE. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Collogue

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Handbook of the New Law of the Sea (Recueil Des Cours, Collogue) (reference)

  • Écologie des leishmanioses : [actes du collogue international], Montpellier, 18-24 août 1974 (reference)

  • Society and Settlement in Iron Age Europe: Actes Du Xviiie Collogue De I'Afeaf, Winchester April 1994 (Sheffield Archaeological Monographs, 11) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Collogue

Language Translations for "collogue"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Farsi 

  

موافقت دروغی کردن , محرمانه گفتگوکردن , چاپلوسی کردن (Butter, Slaver), توطله چیدن (Intrigue, Plot, Scheme). (various references)

   

Italian

  

confabulare (confabulate). (various references)

   

Manx

  

co-chialgey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olloguecay

   

Portuguese

  

conversar (chat, confabulate, converse, discourse, mag, speak, talk, to converse, yarn), confidência (confidence, privity, secret, whisper), palestra (causerie, chitchat, lecture, palaestra, palestra, talk, visit). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

наедине (in private), беседовать интимно. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

gizli konuşmak, entrika hazırlamak. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Collogue

Derivations

Words beginning with "collogue": collogued, collogues. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Collogue" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cloclough, Coelorum, collague, collauge, collegie, collegue, colleuge, colligue, colllague, colloge, colloguy, colouge, Folliguet, Scurlogue. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Collogue

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-g-l-l-o-o-u"

-2 letters: colugo, locule.

-3 letters: cello, colog.

-4 letters: cell, clog, clue, cole, cool, cull, glue, gull, loco, loge, logo, luce, luge, ogle, oleo.

-5 letters: cel, cog, col, coo, cue, ecu, ego, ell, gel, goo, gul, leg, leu, log, loo, lug, ole.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-g-l-l-o-o-u"
 

+1 letter: collogued, collogues.

 

+3 letters: collagenous.

 

+4 letters: museological, neurological, unecological.

 

+5 letters: autecological, cocounselling, numerological, unideological, vulcanologies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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