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cooly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cooly has 1 sense
- cooly(n = noun.person) coolie - (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer; Array is a kind of asian, asiatic
CIDE DICTIONARY
cooly, n. [Hind. klī a laborer, porter: cf. Turk. kl, kyleh, slave.].
An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country. [1913 Webster]
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