incony

English

Etymology

Compare conny, canny, unco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪŋˈkʌni/

Adjective

incony (comparative more incony, superlative most incony)

1. (obsolete) unlearned; artless; pretty; delicate
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     Most sweet jests! most incony vulgar wit!

   • 1599 (first performance; published 1600), Thomas Dekker, “The Shomakers Holiday. Or The Gentle Craft. […]”, in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker […], volume I, London: John Pearson […], published 1873, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iv, page 60:

     Lincolne. Where are they married! dost thou know the Church!
     Firke. I never goe to Church, but I know the name of it, it is a swearing Church, stay a while, 'tis, I by the mas: no, no tis I by my troth, no nor that, tis I by my faith, that that, tis I by my Faiths Church under Paules Crosse, there they shall bee knit like a paire of stockings in matrimony, there theyle be incony.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “incony”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)