lindy

Probably from Lindy, the nickname of US aviator Charles A. Lindbergh.

lindy (plural lindys or lindies)

1. A jitterbug, originated in Harlem, New York.

lindy (third-person singular simple present lindies, present participle lindying, simple past and past participle lindied)

1. (intransitive) To perform this dance.

• “lindy” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

From French lundi (“Monday”).

lindy

1. (Saint-Domingue) a Monday

• Haitian Creole: lendi

• S.J Ducoeurjoly, Manuel des habitans de Saint-Domingue, contenant un précis de l'histoire de cette île

lindy

1. hummingbird

• Elpidia Reynoso González, Vocabulario Español-Tlahuica (1998)