incog
adjective
incognita or incognito.
incog
American
[in-kog]
/ ɪnˈkɒg /
adjective
Informal.
incog.
British
abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of incog
First recorded in 1690–1700; by shortening
Example Sentences
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If Bismarck bars our barrels, tubs, or cans, Forcing our pork to make its way incog, Upset his schemes, and overthrow his plans, And clear a pathway for the native hog.
From The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
He wished now he had never adopted it, but then his plan of staying in Wandsborough incog, would have fallen through, and that he did not wish at all.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Bertram Mitford
Then handing it to his daughter, and instructing the young girl how to deliver it incog, he despatches her upon her errand.
From The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover by Mayne Reid
I'd love to see the Bing Boys bingle, To go to music-halls incog.,
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 by Various
Won’t you introduce me to the other gentlemen, or would they rather remain incog?
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
If my daughter disobeys her mother," she cried, "and betrays the Jedge's incog., she is no Basil, Colonel Reybold.
From Tales of the Chesapeake by George Alfred Townsend
Lieutenant Beckwith had the charge of our party, but proceeded incog. to Ipswich, the general orders not permitting officers of the line to be seen in the quarters of the militia.
From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees
I am come purposely to inspect the gaol, Mrs. Ripshaw, and I wish to be quite incog. at present.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold
Had to keep incog., or I'd have had a dozen parties from town after me on one deal or another.
From A Court of Inquiry by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond
At the banquet the king took his station, incog. in a little closet made out of the cloyster of St. Stephen's, on the right side of the hall.
From Coronation Anecdotes by Giles Gossip
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