Lexic.us

Definition of Cooly

1. Noun. (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer.

Definition of Cooly

1. n. An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.

Definition of Cooly

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of coolie) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cooly

1. coolie [n COOLIES] - See also: coolie

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cooly

Literary usage of Cooly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Things Indian: Being Discursive Notes on Various Subjects Connected with India by William Crooke (1906)
"cooly.*—This is a term applied to the common unskilled native labourer, ... The cooly in Sikhim has a wooden frame strapped over his shoulder like a ..."

2. A Dictionary of American Politics: Comprising Accounts of Political Parties by Everit Brown, Albert Strauss (1892)
"cooly.—As generally used in this country, the word cooly is applied to Chinese laborers of the lower classes who come to this country. ..."

3. The Olden Time: A Monthly Publication Devoted to the Preservation of by Neville B. Craig (1876)
"... and receive them cooly, they intend to decoy your garrison, but you are to guard against stratagem, and defend the post to the last extremity. ..."

4. Missions: American Baptist International Magazine by Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1911)
"Luke went to the Straits Settlements as a cooly and is now a Maistry. ... He began work as a cooly, but he now, after nine years, has a good position as ..."

5. Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself: Containing His Literary and by Jean François Marmontel (1807)
"Neither her weakness nor mine could have supported that consultation : to reason cooly on it, it was necessary that we should be at a distance from each ..."

6. The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine by John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (1801)
"... of indemnification, but very cooly maintains that the. ia^em-. «ity muft be fought for not from France, who is the gainer, ..."

7. The Story of the Lall Bazar Baptist Church, Calcutta: Being the History of by Edward Steane Wenger (1908)
"As matters were advancing we find that on 12th February 1843, the following gentlemen were requested to act as a Committee to conduct the services at cooly ..."

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