collogueとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kɒˈləʊɡ/

動詞

collogue (third-person singular simple present collogues, present participle colloguing, simple past and past participle collogued)

1. (transitive) To coax (someone); also, to flatter (someone).

   Synonyms: jolly, lay it on thick, puff; see also Thesaurus:coax, Thesaurus:flatter

2. (intransitive)
   1. To simulate belief.
   2. (rare) To talk privately or secretly; to conspire.
      • 1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

        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?

      • 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:

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

      • 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:

        "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."

      • 1937, Helen Simpson, Under Capricorn:

        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."

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

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

参照

• Bryan A[ndrew] Garner (2009), “collogue; colloque”, in Garner’s Modern American Usage, 3rd edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 165, columns 1–2.