East Indy

• East Indie

Variant of East India, representing a (frequently colloquial) pronunciation with loss of the final syllable.^[1]

East Indy

1. (chiefly attributive, now rare) East India.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 1956, Robert Carse, chapter 2, in Great Circle, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35:

     “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.”