1711. Spectator, No. 41, 17 April, p. 69 (Morley). So many Ladies, when they first lay it (painting) down, incog in their own faces.
1739. Gray, Letters, No. xxiv, Vol. 1, p. 49 (1819). He passes incog without the walls.
1777. Sheridan, School for Scandal, iv. 3. What! turn inquisitor, and sake evidence incog.
1795. Burns, Poems. 'Address to the De'il.' Then you, ye auld sneck-drawing dog, Ye cam to Paradise incog.
1812. Edinburgh Review, xx. p. 113. He travels incog to his father's two estates.
1819. Moore, From the Diary of a Politician. Incog he (the king) was travelling about.
1826. Disraeli, Vivian Grey, Bk. v, ch. v, p. 187 (1881). Whose well-curled black hair, diamond pin, and frogged coat hinted at the magnifico incog.
1828-45. Hood, Poems, (1846) i. 215. A Foreign Count who came incog, Not under a cloud, but under a fog.
1836. Mahoney, Father Prout, i. 319. O the vile wretch! the naughty dog! He's surely Lucifer incog.
1855. Thackeray, Newcomes, ii. 183. 'Don't call me by my name here, please Florac, I am here incog.'
2. (common).—Drunk: i.e., 'disguised' in liquor.
1823. Bee, Dict. Turf. s. v. Incog. A man drunk is incog. Ibid, s. v. Cog: cogue, a glass of gin or rum with sugar in it. . . . Cogey = drunk.
Incognita, subs. (obsolete).—A
high-class harlot; Anonyma,
(q.v.). For synonyms see Barrack-hack
and Tart.
Incumbrance, subs., in pl. (common).—Children.
For synonyms
see Kid.
Indentures, To make indentures,
verb. phr. (old).—To stagger
with drink.
1622. Rowlands, Good Newes and Bad Newes, p. 43. [Hunterian Club's Rep.]. A fellow that had beene excessive trading, In taking liquor in beyond his lading, Of Claret and the Spanish Malligo, That's legs vnable were vpright to goe; But sometimes wall, and sometimes kennell taking, And as the phrase is vs'd, Indentures making.
Indescribables, subs. (common).—Trousers.
For synonyms see Bags
and Kicks.
1835. Dickens, Sketches by Boz, (C. D. Ed.) p. 67. A pair of indescribables of most capacious dimensions.
1836. Dickens, Pickwick, ch. xvi. Mr. Trotter . . . gave four distinct slaps on the pocket of his mulberry indescribables.
Index, subs. (common).—The face.
For synonyms see Dial and Phiz.
1818-24. Egan, Boxiana, ii. 438. The index of Church was rather transmogrified.
1828. Egan, Finish to Tom & Jerry, p. 48. Kind-hearted Sue! Bless her pretty index.
India, subs. (venery).—The female
pudendum. For synonyms see
Monosyllable.
1613. Donne, Elegy, xviii. [Chalmers, English Poets, vi. 151]. And sailing towards her India in that way Shall at her fair Atlantic navel stay.
Indian, verb. (American colloquial).—To
prowl about, or live like
an Indian.
1869. H. B. Stowe, Old Town Folks, 189. Jake Marshall and me has been Indianing round these 'ere woods more times 'n you could count.
Indian-gift, subs. (American).—An
inadequate return or exchange; 'a
sprat for a whale' Indian giver
= one who takes back a gift.
India-Wipe, subs. (old).—A silk
handkerchief.—Grose, (3rd Ed.
Egan. 1823).
Indies. See Black Indies.—(Grose
1785).
