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coolie, cooly 1. a cheaply hired unskilled Oriental labourer 2. Derogatory an Indian living in South Africa How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It was a simple war of the castes, Coolie versus Samurai, and the coolie socialists were executed by tens of thousands. He noticed that when the swaying fan stopped I would call out to the coolie and bid him pull with a long stroke. All the past corruption and cowardice is hampering us, of course; the West country is pretty stormy and doubtful even in a military sense; and the Irish regiments there, that are supposed to support us by the new treaty, are pretty well in mutiny; for, of course, this infernal coolie capitalism is being pushed in Ireland, too. |
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