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East Indy en · PROPN

Etymology

Variant of East India, representing a (frequently colloquial) pronunciation with loss of the final syllable.

Meanings

1. (archaic, attributive) East India.
   • “Mr. James Bothwick, fourth mate,” Cupp said. “Gloucesterfound. Useter to be East Indy supercargo. Might be you met him out at Pagoda Anchorage, Cap’n.” 1956, Robert Carse, chapter 2, in Great Circle, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35:
   • The girl was with her father and a young gentleman as was to have married her, I reckon: but she looked so pale and delicate like, as shewed she never would get the better of the East Indy sun. 1849 August, “Sketches in Blue Water. The Funeral at Sea: A Sketch from Memory.”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XL, number CCXXXVI, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, page 191, column 2:
   • She had been in an antique shop in Shanghai and there, seems, a fine-spoken gentleman from East Indy told her that he knew the one she was looking for. 1934, Emily Hanson Obear, “Aunt Rebecca and The Idol”, in Paul Gerard Conway, editor, New England Short Stories, Boston, Mass.: Jay B. Pomfret, →OCLC, pages 236–237:

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