Word.ws English Dictionary

East Indy

East Indy proper noun: east India.

Proper noun

East Indy

  1. (archaic, attributive) East India.
    • 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...
    • 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

Forms of East Indy

alternative formEast Indie

Origin of East Indy

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

Questions about East Indy

What does East Indy mean?
East Indy means east India.
What part of speech is East Indy?
East Indy is a proper noun.

Words near East Indy in the dictionary

  1. East Indian plum
  2. East Indian rosebay
  3. East Indians
  4. East Indie
  5. East Indies
  6. East Indy
  7. East Insular
  8. East Islip
  9. East Jaintia Hills
  10. East Java
  11. East Jerusalem

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: East Indy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “East Indy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/east_indy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.