incog

English

Etymology

Abbreviation

Adjective

incog (comparative more incog, superlative most incog)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. Incognito.
   • 2009 April 5, Matthew Algeo, “Harry Truman, Leader of the Freeway”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     “Just as we arose from the table some county judges came in and the incog was off.”

Anagrams

• coign