coolie
IPA: kˈuɫi
noun
- 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.
- (offensive, Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica, South Africa and other parts of Africa) An Indian or a person of Indian descent.
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Examples of "coolie" in Sentences
- The last coolie is a partner with a microscopic share.
- Then the prince punches a heavy food cart at the coolie.
- The chief coolie of the ship blames Holman for the death.
- The coolie trade became regarded as a new form of slavery .
- You are NOT the only two doing research on the GERMAN COOLIE.
- Then there was the Rape of Nanking and the genocide of the Coolies...
- The Bihari coolie is be-headed by poor and unemployed Marathi youth for Maratha pride.
- (Nocsa) president Sam Ramsamy a "coolie" and made a number of racist remarks during the evening.
- The favourite waterproof of the coolie is a huge cloak made of rice straw, the long ends sticking out.
- There's another frame depicting his country, and in which there are two characters wearing 'coolie' hats.
- The term "coolie" is a pejorative term refering to usually unskilled laborers from Asia, particularly China and India. . .
- Whole populations there have never known freedom; to such people one master is no worse than another; the lot of the coolie is the same in either case.
- I would not take him up country to be bullied and demeaned as a "coolie," and I made for him an arrangement with the proprietor of my hotel that during my absence John should help to wait in his restaurant.
- The coolie is a character, -- patient, hard-working, uncomplaining, supplying a demand throughout the Orient, made necessary, as we have seen, by the indolence of the Burmese and of the Malays, to mention only two examples.
- As a prime example of such stereotypes, the National Review magazine ran a cover in March depicting a slanted-eye and "coolie" hatted President, a bucked teeth and Communist-garbed First Lady, and a Buddhist monk-attired Vice President, over the headline "The Manchurian Candidates."