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单词 coolie
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coolien.

Brit. /ˈkuːli/, U.S. /ˈkuli/
Forms: 1600s coule, 1600s cowler, 1600s–1700s coly, 1600s–1800s coolee, 1600s–1800s cooley, 1600s– coolie, 1600s– cooly, 1700s coolley, 1700s couley, 1900s– koelie (South Africa).
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Probably either (i) a variant or alteration of another lexical item; probably partly modelled on a Portuguese lexical item, and partly modelled on a lexical item in a Dravidian language. Or (ii) a borrowing from Gujarati; probably partly modelled on a Portuguese lexical item, and partly modelled on a lexical item in a Dravidian language. Etymons: Koli n.; Gujarati Koḷī.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; probably specific use of Koli n. or its ultimate etymon Gujarati Koḷī (because members of this group frequently worked as labourers or performed menial tasks), probably after Portuguese cule local hired labourer in India (and later also China) (1581 as qule ; apparently also < Gujarati Koḷī , Kulī ), both perhaps partly influenced by Tamil kūli hire, payment for occasional menial work (forming the first element of kūlikkāraṉ and kuliyāḷ hireling) or a related Dravidian word. Compare Urdu qulī ( < Gujarati koḷī ), perhaps influenced by the unrelated Ottoman Turkish qul slave, subject (Turkish kul ). In sense 1a now in the Indian vernaculars generally: Gujarati kulī, Hindi kūlī, kulī, Bengali kuli, etc., and Tamil kūli, Telugu kūlī (as opposed to kūli hire), etc., all probably ultimately < English (or perhaps < Portuguese).With sense 1b compare Afrikaans koelie , apparently < English. Compare Dutch koelie (1642, only with reference to colonies in Asia and the Americas). With uses referring to China (compare e.g. quot. 1745 at sense 1a) compare Chinese kŭlì, apparently < English. In form cowler perhaps showing folk-etymological association with cowl-staff n.
1.
a. In India and (later also) China: a hired labourer (esp. one employed by a European); a porter (now esp. in a railway station). Hence also: an Asian labourer working abroad (now chiefly historical).
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > hireling
hireling1535
hackney1546
journeyman1548
coolie1622
mercedary1656
hack1699
hiree1811
1622 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1622–3 (1908) 139 They finished in two dayes and two nights, bringing with them coules for the purpose.
1638 W. Bruton Newes from E.-Indies 6 Hee lent us Horses to ride on, and Cowlers (which are Porters) to carry our goods.
1680 in J. T. Wheeler Madras in Olden Time (1861) I. 129 That the drum be beat to call all coolies, carpenters, etc.
1704 tr. P. Baldæus Descr. Ceylon in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. III. 740/1 500 Colys or Labourers.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 271 We employ'd..many Chinese Labourers, whom they call Cooly's, to make the Chinam.
1763 R. Orme Hist. Mil. Trans. Brit. Nation I. 80 The care of his baggage made Paradis divide his men into two bodies, between which marched the Indians, called Coolies, who carried his chests.
1776 Ann. Reg. 1775 132 Made use of by the natives of Golconda as coolys or slaves in the mines.
1799 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 55 An order..stating the number of Coolies which an officer may call for from a village.
1826 W. Elliott Nun 100 (note) Coolee means a porter, but is often used reproachfully to other servants of superior rank.
1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. vii. vi. 235 The number of Malabar coolies employed.
1873 J. Morley Rousseau II. 55 A kidnapper of coolies or the captain of a slaver.
1925 W. S. Maugham Painted Veil xxviii. 101 In a straggling line came the coolies.
1971 R. Russell tr. A. Ahmad Shore & Wave vii. 58 Coolies were carrying their luggage on their backs.
1988 A. Desai Baumgartner's Bombay iv. 105 The railway station swarmed with..coolies bent under tin trunks.
2005 T. Aw Harmony Silk Factory i. i. 3 To look at, the building is unremarkable..built in the early thirties by itinerant Chinese coolies.
b. offensive (chiefly derogatory). An Asian person, a person of Asian descent; spec. (a) U.S. a Chinese person; an East Asian; (b) South African and Caribbean an Indian; a South Asian.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > the Chinese > [noun] > native or inhabitant of China
Cathayan?1520
Chinean1577
Son of Heaven1579
Chino1588
chinois1594
Chinese1606
Chinesianc1615
Chinaman1621
China1638
Chinist1654
Chinensian1655
pigtail1823
celestial1842
Johnny1844
coolie1849
John1853
Chinky1871
chow1872
Chink1880
monk1903
Pong1910
power point1986
1849 Commerc. Rev. South & West Aug. 170 English Guiana..contained in 1847, but 4,000 whites, with coolies, blacks and mixed races, amounting to 94,000.
1855 F. Soulé et al. Ann. San Francisco 380 The white miner..could not pretend to compete with the..‘coolie’, as so John Chinaman was now called by many.
1873 F. Boyle To Cape for Diamonds 285 A coolie cook, clad in tunic and turban, pursues the study of his art.
1907 W. Jekyll Jamaican Song & Story 265 Me da Coolie sleep on piazza with me wrapper round me shoulder.
1920 Cape Times 1 Apr. 3/2 Great Public Sale... No coolies.
1959 L. Lerner Englishman xiv. 220 It was his girl the other one took, the one who slept with koelies.
1961 P. Marshall Soul clap Hands Sing (1962) 105 A nice coolie girl just up from the country.
1974 S. Selvon Those who eat Cascadura iv. 97 Think how all the black people must be saying that those coolies only go by the temple to pretend.
1990 J. Naidoo Coolie Location 120 ‘It's always the same with you Coolies: impossible to pick one of you up without having the entire family troop down to the police station.’.. It wasn't the observation of Indian clannishness..that struck me, it was the word ‘Coolie’, and the careless cock-sure way it was used.
2. slang. A person of low (social) status. Also: a soldier. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > [noun]
thanec893
knightc1175
soldiera1300
osteyoura1450
servitor?1570
marshalman1575
soldado1577
soldat1591
manat1610
camper1631
soldade1634
buff coata1670
swad1708
militaire1746
red herring1789
coolie1803
swaddy1819
swad-gill1819
scarlet runnerc1864
guffy1882
leatherneck1890
pongo1890
hoster1892
swatty1901
file1903
squaddie1933
brown job1943
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] > person
swaina1150
ladc1300
loon1535
blue coat1583
gaffer1589
snake1590
meaner1596
frock1612
groundling1630
frock-man1657
coolie1803
simple1824
yellow dog1862
Harry1874
smock-frock1898
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > person of the lowest class
ribalda1250
kitchen knave1440
scullion1483
scudler1488
canel raker?1518
channel raker1575
proletary1576
muckworm1649
proletariana1657
infimate1733
proletaire1796
coolie1803
gutterling1846
mudsill1858
prole1887
gutter-sparrow1890
gutter-bird1896
underworldling1928
delta1932
lumpenproletarian1936
proly1959
1803 R. Percival in Naval Chron. 10 31 A Cooly, or common fellow of the lowest class.
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 128 Coolie, a soldier, in allusion to the Hindoo coolies, or day labourers.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, appositive, and objective, as coolie boy, coolie-catcher, coolie emigrant, coolie hire, coolie labour, coolie system, coolie work, etc.
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1681 Fort St. Geo. Cons. 10 Jan. in Notes & Extracts iii. 45 (Y. Supp.) For the farme of Dustoory on cooley hire at Pagodas 20 per annum.
1711 C. Lockyer Acct. Trade India viii. 243 Hamalage, or Cooly-hire at weighing, 1 Coz of every 20 md Tabrees.
1773 Further Rep. Comm. Secrecy State E. India Company 222 Proposals for Cooley work, viz. filling up the earth, &c. were extravagantly high.
1818 M. M. Sherwood Stories Church Catech. (ed. 4) xxi. 145 Shall I tell the coolie boy to run after him?
1846 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Oct. 251 This is but one instance of the justice of the Cooley system.
1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. i. viii. 108 Coolie-traffic can never be carried on by private enterprise.
1865 Daily Tel. 24 Oct. 4/6 A ship..started from Calcutta with four hundred coolie emigrants.
1879 Constit. Calif. in J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. (1888) II. App. 678 Asiatic coolieism is a form of human slavery, and is for ever prohibited in this State, and all contracts for coolie labour shall be void.
1890 Times (Weekly ed.) 21 Feb. 10/4 The Chinese agents employed to collect the coolies, and known as ‘coolie-catchers’.
1960 W. P. Morgan Triad Societies in Hong Kong iv. 63 In 1886, a riot broke out in the Western district of Hong Kong arising from extortions practiced in the coolie trade.
1992 L. Scott Witchbroom (1993) 173 I take the flowers Madam send. She must have get the little coolie boy, Ram, Madoo son, to pick them before sun-up.
C2.
Coolie Christmas n. South African colloquial (offensive) (now rare) the Islamic festival of Muharram, or the Hindu festival of Diwali, as observed by people of South Asian origin.
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1896 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Jan. 3/1 If the reader can form a composite mental photograph of a village wedding, a Punch-and-Judy show, and an open-air revivalist meeting of any popular English seaside resort, he will have a fair idea of the crowning ceremony of a ‘Coolie Christmas’.
1905 East London Daily Dispatch (S. Afr.) 18 Mar. The festivities in connexion with the Hindoo's festival Mohurrum known locally as the Coolie Christmas, commences to-night.
1967 E. Rosenthal Encycl. Southern Afr. 125 Coolie Christmas, old-fashioned name applied in Natal to Muharram..and..Diwali.
coolie hat n. a broad conical hat similar to those worn in some East Asian countries by labourers.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > tall > conical
copintank1509
sugar-loaf hat1585
sugar-loaf hat1607
copatainea1616
tank1688
witch's hat1801
coolie hat1856
extinguisher hat1885
1856 S. W. Williams Tonic Dict. Chinese Lang. in Canton Dial. 296/2 A bamboo coolie-hat.
1896 Cent. Mag. Apr. 938/1 An old coolie hat is put on a dried melon for the head [of a scarecrow].
1937 J. Laver Taste & Fashion x. 158 In 1935 there was a vogue for flat hats with rather wide brims, Chinese ‘coolie’ hats, and similar shapes.
2001 Vogue Apr. 218/1 The collection is peppered with late fifties Dior-isms: pencil skirts and coolie hats,..and strapless ball gowns with matching opera coats.
coolie line n. now chiefly historical a row of houses or huts built as accommodation for coolies or labourers; frequently in plural; cf. line n.2 20a.
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1851 Hooker's Jrnl. Bot. 3 6 In some of the estates that I have visited, the disease has first been noticed near the Coolie lines.
1939 R. Godden Black Narcissus xxix. 263 The news spread to the village and the coolie lines.
2000 A. Ghosh Glass Palace (2001) xviii. 228 Suddenly the trees ended and a small shantytown appeared, with rows of shacks lining the road... ‘The coolie lines,’ said Alison, slowing briefly.
coolie orange n. now rare the sweet orange, Citrus sinensis, thought to originate in China.The orange was formerly considered to be a variety of C. aurantium.
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1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 466 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI Coolie Orange (citrus aurantium).
1863 J. Summers Handbk. of Chinese Lang. ii. 85 I am very fond of eating peaches, small oranges, or large thin-skinned oranges or coolie oranges.
1929 Jrnl. Heredity 20 37/2 The Canton orange, or true sweet orange, is distinguished by the name Cheng, or ‘Coolie orange’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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