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单词 anglo-indian
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Anglo-Indiann.adj.

Brit. /ˌaŋɡləʊˈɪndɪən/, U.S. /ˌæŋɡloʊˈɪndiən/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Anglo- comb. form, Indian n.
Etymology: < Anglo- comb. form + Indian n.
A. n.
1. A person of British descent born or living in India. Now rare.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of India > [noun] > native or inhabitant of India > European
Indian1751
Anglo-Indian1805
Indo-European1825
Hindu1830
Indo-Briton1831
sahib-log1848
1805 Ann. Rev. 3 429/1 What our learned Anglo-Indians have been unable to do [sc. read Babylonian inscriptions], we are told is satisfactorily done by the Rev. Samuel Henley.
1842 Ainsworth's Mag. 2 63 He had been at Massorie, that sanatorium of Anglo-Indians.
1861 R. Swinhoe Narr. N. China Campaign 1860 153 The Chinese Tsaou, called Bier by the Anglo-Indians, is a somewhat cylindrically shaped fruit.
1925 A. S. M. Hutchinson One Increasing Purpose i. xv. 90 The kind of children, well-bred, entirely pocket~moneyless, that retired Anglo-Indians often have.
1994 Evening Standard (Nexis) 27 Jan. 41 He made real in his fiction the lives of the British occupiers—known then as Anglo-Indians.
2. A person of mixed British and Indian descent.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person white and Indian
half-caste1789
East Indian1801
koi-hai1816
Anglo-Indian1826
Eurasian1826
Europasian1867
Anglo?1943
1826 J. Malcolm Polit. Hist. India 1784–1823 II. xi. 248 The mixed population of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, made up of European Half Castes, or Anglo-Indians.
1929 Church Times 14 June 726/4 The Archdeacon of Madras said that the Anglo-Indian, and particularly the lower class of Anglo-Indian, was the crux of the whole question.
1934 S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XLI. 21 The term ‘Anglo-Indian’ used to be applied to people of British birth who had lived long in India. In 1911 the Government of India decided to substitute ‘Anglo-Indian’ for ‘Eurasian’ as the official term for those of mixed descent.
1954 J. Masters Bhowani Junction i. v. 42 There were two Railway Institutes..one for Europeans and Anglo-Indians, and one for Indians.
2007 Sunday Mail (Glasgow) (Nexis) 23 Sept. 26 The Anglo-Indians were virtually created by trading giant the East India Company, who encouraged their European soldiers to mix with Indian women in the late 1600s.
3. Originally: the form of English used by British people resident in India (esp. during British rule), characterized by frequent adoption of words and phrases from Indian languages. Later also: the English language as used in India or by native speakers of Indian languages; Indian English.Anglo-Indian is also sometimes distinguished by the absorption of informal British terms (originating for example in Army or school slang) into wider, even standard use.
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1860 Slang Dict. (ed. 2) Mufti, the civilian dress of a naval or military officer when off duty.—Anglo Indian.
1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil I. 364 A certain Colonel Montenegro, when ‘jawáb'd’, as the Anglo Indian says, taunted her with preferring a poor ‘man who wrote books’.
1884 N.E.D. at Abkari The manufacture or sale of spirituous liquors; hence in Anglo-Indian, the excise duty levied upon such manufacture and sale.
1897 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Sub,..to do a sub is to borrow money..(Anglo-Indian).
1945 Mod. Lang. Notes 60 534 The word sandhi..would in Anglo-Indian be pronounced ‘sundi’, exactly as spelled in the Evening Post quotation.
2005 Times (Nexis) 27 Aug. (Books section) 9 Salman Rushdie has returned to South Asia, theatre of his phenomenal invention of a new form of Anglo-Indian... It was a kneading of language that led to the Booker.
B. adj.
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of India under British rule, or of life under the British Raj.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of India > [adjective] > European
Japhetic1710
Indian1793
Japhetian1803
Anglo-Indian1805
Indo-British1954
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [adjective] > and other
French-English1580
Anglo-German1683
Anglo-American1769
Anglo-Welsh1772
Anglo-French1797
Anglo-Russian?1800
Anglo-Turkish?1800
Anglo-Indian1805
Anglo-Irish1810
Anglo-Scandinavian1836
Anglo-Egyptian1838
Hiberno-English1840
Anglo-Jewish1843
Anglo-Norse1872
Anglo-Boer1881
Anglo-Roman1913
Anglo-Soviet1920
Anglo-Arab1923
Anglo-Frisian1955
1805 Ann. Rev. 3 775 The expedition of the Anglo-Indian army through Egypt.
1808 J. Mackintosh Let. 24 Feb. in R. J. Mackintosh Life (1835) I. viii. 385 The constitution of the Anglo-Indian Government is founded in opposition to the most demonstrated principles of political science.
1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xiv. 346 We think..the proportion of onion and garlic by one-half too much for any but well-seasoned Anglo-Indian palates.
1847 Howitt's Jrnl. 30 Jan. 67/2 The transmission of the Anglo-Indian mails.
1858 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem I. xlvii. 183 That sensible men consider Nana Sahib as an Anglo-Indian myth.
1881 Athenæum 9 July 42/3 Glimpses of Anglo-Indian life before it became de-Orientalized.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 11 Dec. 2/1 Calcutta..merits the epithet of Anglo-Indian better than anything else in India.
1935 M. R. Anand Untouchable 16 Ever since he was a child he had walked past the wooden stall on which lay heaped the..pith solar topees, peak caps, knives, forks, buttons, old books and other oddments of Anglo-Indian life.
1993 C. Dewey Anglo-Indian Attitudes i. 3 The ICS directed all the activities of the Anglo-Indian state.
2001 Times of India (Nexis) 13 Jan. Pish-pash is an Anglo-Indian dish that in Calcutta has caught the wider fancy. Made from boneless chicken meat stewed with rice, carrots, potatoes and milk until it turns into a gloupy mass, its [sic] a sterling example of nursery food.
2.
a. Designating a person of British descent born or living in India; of or relating to people of British descent born or living in India. Now chiefly historical.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > [adjective]
Great British1645
British-born1667
pan-Britannic1709
Anglo-Indian1810
Angrezi1855
Angrez1896
Pommy1913
1810 G. Ensor On National Govt. II. 45 The British in Asia..have lately added an attempt to coerce the religious belief of the natives... For what? To have Anglo-Indian bishops, deans, and rectors, that they may exhaust by the sacred law of tithes what has escaped the private peculation and public rapine of their civil and military countrymen.
1834 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. 13 i. 66 It is only doing Anglo-Indian children justice to say, that they are, generally speaking, a most orderly race.
1892 New Rev. June 686 An Anglo-Indian mother..sometimes..has to fly suddenly with [her children]..back to her old home in England.
1922 W. J. Locke Tale of Triona i. 9 A proud old Anglo-Indian family, all Generals and Colonels and Sirs and Ladies.
2000 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 33 37 Facing an Anglo-Indian (the term then used to describe the British in India) audience, as he did at the Asiatick Society of Bengal in 1794.
b. Designating a person of mixed British and Indian descent; of or relating to people of mixed British and Indian descent.
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1830 A. Heber Life R. Heber II. xxiii. 162 Howrah, an adjoining town, [was] chiefly inhabited by shipbuilders of mixed or Anglo-Indian blood.
1859 E. Money Wife & Ward xx. 320 [Of the] remaining Christian population of Cawnpore..some were European, but the greater part Anglo-Indian or Eurasian.
1912 C. F. Andrews Renaissance in India ii. 56 The same principles would apply equally to the question of Anglo-Indian (or ‘Eurasian’) education in India.
1923 S. M. Edwardes Bombay City Police 39 Charles Forjett, who was appointed Superintendent of Police in 1855, was of Eurasian (now styled Anglo-Indian) parentage.
1970 S. C. Ghosh Social Condition Brit. Community in Bengal, 1757–1800 i. iv. 89 British soldiers and non-commissioned officers frequently married Anglo-Indian girls and took them back to England.
1996 T. N. Murari Steps from Paradise i. 19 Patricia and her mother were as fair as Europeans, with reddish hair and blue eyes, but they were Anglo-Indian.
3. Originally: of, relating to, or characteristic of the form of English used by British people resident in India (esp. during British rule), typically distinguished by the adoption of words and phrases from Indian languages. Later also: of or relating to the English language as used in India or by native speakers of Indian languages. Cf. Indo-Anglian adj. at Indo- comb. form1 2.
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1855 Times 27 Dec. 10/3 We were content to suspend our king-making propensities,..having bound him by an instrument, called, in Anglo-Indian language, a treaty.
1875 G. T. Chesney in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 702/2 ‘Can't do much harm by losing the twenty chicks’, observed the colonel, in Anglo-Indian argot.
1886 H. Yule & A. C. Burnell (title) Hobson-Jobson, a glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms.
1949 H. A. R. Gibbs Mohammedanism i. 1 The Persians adopted a different adjective Musalmān, from which are derived the Anglo-Indian Mussulman and French Musulman.
1991 I. Lewis Sahibs, Nabobs & Boxwallahs p. iv We have not ventured to speculate on the changing phonetics of Anglo-Indian words... It is hazardous to use the original Indian word as a model for Anglo-Indian pronunciation. Consequently the Anglo-Indian orthography has been left to speak for itself, as far as it is able to do so.
2000 L. Forbes Fish, Blood & Bone ii. ix. 257 Nick explained that gully was an Anglo-Indian word for a narrow unnamed alley.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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