coolie 的 2 个定义
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.
- Informal. characteristic of or suitable for a coolie: working for coolie wages.
更多coolie例句
- 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.