East Indy

English Alternative forms en East Indie Etymology Variant of en east India, representing a (frequently colloquial) pronunciation with loss of the final syllable.n 1060744540 Proper noun east Indy en chiefly attributive now rare East India. en 1849 August Sketches in Blue Water. The Funeral at Sea: A Sketch from Memory. Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country XL CCXXXVI London John William Parker,West Strand. 191 https://archive.org/details/sim_frasers-magazine_1849-08_40_236/page/191/mode/1up 2 5899443 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. en 1934 Emily Hanson Obear Aunt Rebecca and The Idol Paul Gerard Conway New England Short Stories Boston, Mass. Jay B. Pomfret 236–237 https://books.google.com/books?id=XDwUAAAAIAAJ&q=%22East+Indy%22 32319091 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. en 1956 Robert Carse 2 Great Circle New York, N.Y. Charles Scribner’s Sons 35 https://archive.org/details/greatcircle0000unse_n5k6/page/35/mode/1up 56-5660 1427741 “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.” References