incog

[ in-kog ]

adjective

, Informal.

1. incognita or incognito.

incog.

abbreviation for

1. incognito

Word History and Origins

Origin of incog¹

First recorded in 1690–1700; by shortening

Example Sentences

The young Pretender, followed by about fifty Scotch and Irish adventurers, meanwhile, came incog.

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True, but I learn that she means to make the entire trip incog.

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I played at being successful, bought my own pictures through dealers—incog., of course—at enormous prices.

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There is a well-known story of an English nobleman, desiring to remain incog.

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Present your friend to me, incog., and I'll wager—oh, anything that I shall read her like a book on sight.

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Related Words

• anonymous
• exotic
• foreign
• nameless
• new
• remote
• strange
• uncharted
• undiscovered
• unexplained
• unexplored
• unfamiliar
• unidentified
• unnamed
• unrecognized