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Coolie - What does it mean?

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coolie

English

(wikipedia coolie)

Alternative forms

* cooly, kuli, quli, koelie, etc.

Noun

(coolies)
  • (offensive, slang) An unskilled Asian worker, usually of Chinese or Indian descent; a labourer; a porter. Coolies were frequently transported to other countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries as indentured labourers.
  • A person of Indian descent.

    • Derived terms

    * coolie orange

    References

    * Yule, Henry and Burnell, A. C. (1886): Hobson-Jobson The Anglo-Indian Dictionary . Reprint: Ware, Hertfordshire. Wordsworth Editions Limited. 1996. * Le grand dictionnaire Ricci de la langue chinoise , (2001), Vol. III, p. 833. English terms derived from Hindi English terms derived from Urdu

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.