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单词 punkah-coolie
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punkah-coolie
punkah-coolie n. now rare = punkah-wallah n.
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the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > fanning > one who > specific
punkah-wallah1826
punkah-coolie1857
1857 Times 10 Aug. 9/1 We..slept on the roof—ladies, children, ayas, and punkah coolies; officers lying down dressed, and their wives sitting up by them fanning them.
1902 East India Revenue Accts. 21 Nov. in Parl. Deb. 4th Ser. CXV. 191 He was a punkah coolie, who had been kicked violently by some soldier, and died in consequence.
1969 D. Dilks Curzon in India I. 199 Early in 1900, a private of the Royal Scots Fusiliers battered a punkah-coolie to death with a dumb-bell and..was brought to trial and acquitted.
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