coolie

/koo-lee/US // ˈku li //UK // (ˈkuːlɪ) //

苦力,苦行者,苦工,苦行僧

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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Disparaging and Offensive.
- : an unskilled laborer, especially formerly in China and India.
- : an unskilled laborer employed cheaply, especially one brought from Asia.
- : a contemptuous term used to refer to an Asian, especially an Indian living in South Africa.

adj.形容词 adjective

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- : Informal. characteristic of or suitable for a coolie: working for coolie wages.

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