Definitions for cooly

cooly coo·ly

Spelling: [koo-lee]
IPA: /ˈku li/

Cooly is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in cooly (clooy).

Definitions for cooly

noun

  1. coolie.
  2. an unskilled laborer, especially formerly in China and India.
  3. an unskilled laborer employed cheaply, especially one brought from Asia.
  4. a contemptuous term used to refer to an Asian, especially an Indian living in South Africa.

adjective

  1. Informal. characteristic of or suitable for a coolie:

Origin of cooly

1545-55; Urdu kūlī Tamil kūli hire, hireling

Examples for cooly

"You would send vessels like the cooly ships up here to kidnap them, I suppose," Raed observed.

Without the Chinese cooly, the tobacco planter is helpless, and if the proper season is allowed to pass, a whole year may be lost.

That's the whole force of the illustration, to my mind, cooly.

Both bears fell at the crack of the rifles, and with grunt and snort rolled to the foot of the cooly.

Horatio cooly said, he could not but confess he had been to blame, and must therefore allow the justice of her proceeding.

Leto even knows he killed the performance, cooly uttering, “There you go...” at the end.

As you are cooly to decide, I will as cooly give you the qualities of my mistress.

cooly (Tamil kúli), a labourer in the fields; also a porter.

He had been much in war; careless of wounds, he was cooly intent on destroying the enemy.

Their occupations are chiefly cultivation of a low order, cooly work, and hunting.

Word Value for cooly
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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