dot Indian

English

Etymology

A reference to the bindi. See also dot or feather.

Noun

dot Indian (plural dot Indians)

1. (informal) an Indian; a person from India
   • 2012, Jesse C. Holder, Chutes, Beer, & Bullets: Not Your Grandpa's War Story, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 17:

     MY FIRST TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT and I got stuck behind a family of Indians (Not scalpers, but dot Indians).

   • 2005, Reynolds Price, The Good Priest's Son, Scribner Book Company:

     It was no surprise that the doctor proved to be a dot Indian (as opposed to feather Indian, a Native American).

   • 2015, Paul Theroux, Deep South, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 25:

     In a landscape of whites and blacks, the most conspicuous person I saw was this man, my first Indian in the South, the owner-manager of a motel, a dot Indian with a caste mark on his forehead rather than a feather Indian.