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English
Etymology
Abbreviation
Adjective
incog (comparative more incog, superlative most incog)
- Incognito.
- 1846, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, "Forgotten Flowers", Voice of Flowers, page 64.
- Though we travel'd incog. yet we trembled with fear,
For the accents of strangers fell hoarse on our ear.
- 1985, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories, Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth, page 343
- But his general aspect and manner were so suggestive of an education and career incongruous with his naval function that when not actively engaged in it he looked like a man of high quality, social and moral, who for reasons of his own was keeping incog.
Adverb
incog (comparative more incog, superlative most incog)
- Incognito.
1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.iii:What—my old Guardian—what[!] turn inquisitor and take evidence incog.—
1786, Robert Burns, Address to the Deil:Then you, ye auld, snick-drawing dog!
Ye cam to Paradise incog,
An’ play’d on man a cursed brogue,
(Black be your fa’!)
Noun
incog (plural incogs)
- Incognito.
2009 April 5, Matthew Algeo, “Harry Truman, Leader of the Freeway”, in New York Times:“Just as we arose from the table some county judges came in and the incog was off.”
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