Definitions for coolie

coolie coo·lie

Spelling: [koo-lee]
IPA: /ˈku li/

Coolie is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in coolie (ceiloo).

Definitions for coolie

noun

  1. an unskilled laborer, especially formerly in China and India.
  2. an unskilled laborer employed cheaply, especially one brought from Asia.
  3. 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 coolie

1545-55; Urdu kūlī Tamil kūli hire, hireling

Examples for coolie

I could not talk with them nor they with my coolie,—for he came from the other side of the range,—nor he with me.

Who can tell what the Chinese coolie is doing in the same way?

Thaine threw the flag up to a coolie who was already climbing.

But, while the negro can do more work in a day than the coolie, he won't.

The coolie was again bound, this time more tightly than ever.

He learned what it was to be spoken to like a coolie and ordered about like a cook.

He is known to be exceedingly anxious to destroy the coolie trade.

As he had evolved from a coolie labourer to a multi-millionaire, so had his name evolved.

Two reluctant men were sent to the relief of the coolie in distress.

To fall to the job of a coolie is, for the Hindu, the worst declassment.

Word Value for coolie
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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