incony

comparative more incony · superlative most incony

1. obsoleteunlearned, artless, pretty, or delicate

   Most sweet jests! most incony vulgar wit!

   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]

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   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.

   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

   O super-dainty canon, vicar incony! Make no delay, Miles, but away; And bring the wench and money

   1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)