coolie / ˈku li /

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coolie2 个定义

n. 名词 noun

Disparaging and Offensive.

  1. an unskilled laborer, especially formerly in China and India.
  2. an unskilled laborer employed cheaply, especially one brought from Asia.
  3. a contemptuous term used to refer to an Asian, especially an Indian living in South Africa.
adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. Informal. characteristic of or suitable for a coolie: working for coolie wages.

更多coolie例句

  1. A coolie would pay as much as 400 pesos premium to find himself where he could earn up to 100 pesos per month.
  2. The coolie-track had led them into the widest part of the Maidan, where it slopes to the south, and the huts of Bowanipore.
  3. I made my way with one coolie to a spot some little distance above our First Advanced Camp.
  4. As the night was closing in a coolie was observed running down the last steep sandy slope to our camp.
  5. One coolie, and then two others, fell out and could not be induced to come further.