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Definition of coolie noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

coolie

noun
 
/ˈkuːli/
 
/ˈkuːli/
(old-fashioned, taboo, offensive)
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  1. a very offensive word for a worker in China, India and other parts of Asia, used by Europeans
    Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Hindi and Telugu kūlī ‘day labourer’, probably associated with Urdu ḳulī ‘slave’.
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