Online Google Dictionary

coolie 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Noun
/ˈko͞olē/,
Font size:

coolies, plural;
  1. offensive. An unskilled native laborer in India, China, and some other Asian countries

  1. (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer
  2. Coolie (variously spelled Cooly, Kuli, Quli, Koelie etc.) is: * A historical term for manual labourers from Asia, particularly China and India, in the 19th century and early 20th century. ...
  3. Coolie is a 1983 Indian Bollywood film directed by Manmohan Desai. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor, Rati Agnihotri, Kader Khan, Suresh Oberoi and Puneet Issar. It is about a railway coolie.
  4. Coolie is a novel by Mulk Raj Anand first published in 1936. The novel reinforced Anand's position as one of India's leading English authors. The book is highly critical of British rule in India and India's caste system. ...
  5. 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; In Trinidad, West Indies, Guyana, and parts of Africa slang for a person of Indian descent ...
  6. (Coolies) The lowest paid unskilled laborers of, or from, China, India or other highly populated Asiatic areas.
  7. (coolies) slang for Vietnamese civilian workers.
  8. any Asian subsistence laborer, a civilian worker; as derived from pidgin Chinese-English for hireling. See CHIGGIE BEAR, DAN CONG, HACK.
  9. door-to-door salesman of East-Indian decent
  10. the traditional Jamaican epithet for East Indians. It is never used for Chinese Jamaicans. Usually in the form coolie-man or coolie-oman. It is not considered polite today anymore than the term nega, but it is still used widely in rural areas.
  11. An “unskilled native laborer”. Ms. Bird uses this to refer to the men pulling her kuruma (wheeled cart), apparently without any sense of insult implied.
  12. Indian worker (from India).
  13. person who carries a load.
  14. (North America) unskilled Asian labor, usually Chinese (originally used in 19th-century for Chinese railroad labor). Possibly from Hindi/Telugu kuli, day laborer. ...