andy
android
Noun
- android
- Well, no intelligence test would trap such an andy. But then, intelligence tests hadn't trapped an andy in years, not since the primordial, crude varieties of the '70s. - 1968, Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of...
- 1989, Ron Goulart (ghostwriting as William Shatner), TekWar These damn andies can pass for humans, as can most of the more expensive andies these days.
Origin
From android + -y, coined by Philip K. Dick in his 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.