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Coolie logo #10101) Asian 2) Asian worker 3) Cooly 4) Cousin of the peon 5) Eastern laborer 6) Ill-paid laborer 7) Irish boy name 8) Laborer 9) Near-slave worker 10) Oriental laborer 11) Rickshaw boy 12) Rickshaw puller 13) Slave worker 14) Underpaid laborer 15) Unskilled laborer
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Coolie

Coolie logo #10101) Carrier 2) Cooly
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Coolie

Coolie logo #21000 A coolie (alternatively spelled cooli, cooly, kuli, quli, koelie and other such variations), during the 19th and early 20th century, was a label applied to a person from Asia, particularly if they were from Southern China, the Indian subcontinent, the Philippines or Indonesia. Today, it is also a contemporary racial slur for people of Asian descen...
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Coolie

Coolie logo #21002• (n.) Same as Cooly. • (n.) An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.
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Coolie

Coolie logo #21003(from the article `Anand, Mulk Raj`) A prolific writer, Anand first gained wide recognition for his novels Untouchable (1935) and Coolie (1936), both of which examined the problems of ...
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coolie logo #21003(from Hindi Kuli, an aboriginal tribal name, or from Tamil kuli, `wages`), in usually pejorative European usage, an unskilled labourer or porter ... [2 related articles]
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Coolie

Coolie logo #20159India / South East / Far East Asia Labourer paid on a daily basis.
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coolie logo #20688Unskilled indentured labourer of India and East Asia. Coolies were introduced into many parts of the world, especially the Caribbean, Africa, Fiji Islands, Malaya, and Ceylon, when labour was needed...
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coolie logo #10444unskilled laborer
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Coolie

Coolie logo #20972Coo'lie noun Same as Cooly .
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Coolie

Coolie logo #21217Coolie is a name in Hindustan for a day labourer, the name also being extended to those of some other eastern countries. During the Victorian Era many of these were introduced into the West Indies, Mauritius, and other places, their passage being paid for them on their agreeing to serve for a term of years. The first coolie emigrants appear to have...
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Coolie

Coolie logo #21217A coolie is a Chinese, large, conical shaped hat made from straw.
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Coolie

Coolie logo #21217Coolie is derogatory slang for a Chinese or oriental person.
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coolie logo #20400[n] - an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer
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coolie logo #20974cooly noun an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer
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coolie logo #21199an unskilled laborer, esp. formerly in China and India. · an unskilled laborer employed cheaply, esp. one brought from Asia.
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