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incog

incog adjective: incognito.

Adjective

incog (comparative more incog, superlative most incog)

  1. Incognito.
    • Though we travel'd incog. yet we trembled with fear,
      For the accents of strangers fell hoarse on our ear.1846, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, "Forgotten Flowers", Voice of Flowers, page 64.
    • 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.1985, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories, Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth, page 343

Adverb

incog (comparative more incog, superlative most incog)

  1. Incognito.
    • What—my old Guardian—what[!] turn inquisitor and take evidence incog.—1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.iii
    • Then you, ye auld, snick-drawing dog!
      Ye cam to Paradise incog,
      An’ play’d on man a cursed brogue,
      (Black be your fa’!)1786, Robert Burns, Address to the Deil

Noun

incog (plural incogs)

  1. Incognito.
    • “Just as we arose from the table some county judges came in and the incog was off.”2009 April 5, Matthew Algeo, “Harry Truman, Leader of the Freeway”, in New York Times

Forms of incog

Adjective
comparativemore incog
superlativemost incog
Adverb
comparativemore incog
superlativemost incog
Noun
pluralincogs

Origin of incog

Abbreviation

Questions about incog

What does incog mean?
Incog means incognito.
What part of speech is incog?
Incog can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.

Words near incog in the dictionary

  1. incode
  2. incodes
  3. incoercibility
  4. incoercible
  5. incoexistence
  6. incog
  7. incogent
  8. incogitability
  9. incogitable
  10. incogitance
  11. incogitances

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