0 a person who comes from or whose family comes from India, Pakistan, or Bangladesh but who lives in another country:
1 in a traditional or home-made Indian style:
These days we try and use our own word for homeboy so we just call ourselves desis.
She experienced the "confused desi" phenomenon after she moved to the United States as a child, and felt conflicted about her East Indian roots.
As desis established themselves in the community, they found it important to become involved in the political arena.
A group of young Desis chats over coffee, complaining about generalizations such as the widespread assumption that Indian kids are perfect students.
Ghee is also sometimes called desi (country-made) ghee to distinguish it from "vegetable ghee".
Caramelized onions are used as the base for almost every desi dish you can think of.
The two characters are like a snapshot of modernizing India: one English-speaking, foreign-influenced and affluent; the other desi, or traditional.
The Eighties London sound was a bit more innovative and mixed with other genres of music, whereas Birmingham was desi because the community was solid Punjabi and Sikh.
