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Coolie
noun- in South Africa, a person of Indian descent INDIA, 1873
Offensive, insulting. - [S]he went into hospital to have her (Gesturing) “wardrobe” taken out. Dripping in jewellery like a bladdy coolie! Looks like a damn Christmas tree, if you ask me. — Lueen Conning, A Coloured Place, 1998
- He leans into Maxim as Lili plops down beside her man. “Coolie?” he asks, indicating Lili with his chin. “Guyanese?” “India,” Maxim says, putting his arm around her shoulders. “She’s Indian.” — V.K. Mina, Splintered Day, p. 56, 1999
- a Vietnamese civilian US
The C19 term for Chinese or other East Asians was revived by US soldiers in Vietnam. - — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 49, 1991
- an Asian servant AUSTRALIA
- The talk turned to Coolies and how they simply had to use an electric cattle prod on some of their Asian servants to get them to do any work. — Kitty Churchill, Thinking of England, p. 137, 1995
- a locomotive fireman UK
- — Frank McKenna, A Glossary of Railwaymen’s Talk, 1970
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