Coolie

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Offensive An unskilled Asian laborer.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • n. A person of Indian descent.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Same as cooly.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A name given by Europeans in India, China, etc., to a native laborer employed as a burden-carrier, porter, stevedore, etc., or in other menial work: as, a chair-coolie, a housecoolie; hence, in Africa, the West Indies, South America, and other places, an East Indian or Chinese laborer who is employed, under contract, on a plantation or in other work.
  • Of or pertaining to coolies or a coolie, especially when under contract for service out of his own country: as, coolie labor; the coolie trade.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Asiatic    Asian   
    Cross Reference
    coolie orange   
    Variant
    cooly   
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