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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Rare; fine; pretty.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Unlearned; artless; pretty; delicate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete unlearned; artless; pretty; delicate

Etymologies

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Compare conny, canny.

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. artless
  2. delicate
  3. pretty
  4. unlearned

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  • qms commented on the word incony

    A word popular in Shakespeare's day and unused since:

    OED

    Forms: Also inconie, in-conie, in conie, inconey, in conye.

    Etymology: A cant word, prevalent about 1600, of unascertained origin.

    It appears to have rhymed with money , compare coney n.1 Suggestions as to its derivation are that it represents French inconnu , or Italian incognito , unknown; that it is a variation of uncanny , unconnyincautious, etc. (see canny adj.); that it is connected with unco unknown, strange, etc.; but none of these is free from difficulty.

    The OED uses the past tense in guessing how the word might have been pronounced. Its meaning is likewise veiled in the mists of time.

    August 27, 2016

  • qms commented on the word incony

    An odd one, this old-time incony:

    The word is elusive and funny;

    Meaning artless or fragile

    But, shifting and agile,

    It hops like a lexical bunny.

    August 27, 2016