incog
Americanadjective
abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of incog
First recorded in 1690–1700; by shortening
Example Sentences
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Usually incog, in England, I reside in a cottage near Osborne.
From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James
Ne'er fear; I quit that filthy bog, Where I so long have croaked incog: People of talents, sure, should thrive, And not be buried thus alive.
From Favourite Fables in Prose and Verse by Weir, Harrison
And another reason for goin’ there: I knowed the savin’ sperit of my pardner, and I thought he would ruther git a free meal than to keep his incognito incog.
From Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Holley, Marietta
I didn't know you had to travel incog.
From Duncan Polite The Watchman of Glenoro by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller
The manner in which I would bring such a publication out would be under the cover of an Englishman who had made the tour of America incog.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Conway, Moncure Daniel
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