Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cool; somewhat cold.
- noun See
coolie .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
coolie .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer
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Examples
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All goods of life enjoy and in cooly shade recline?
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But it was kind of cooly surreal the way a streetmeat cart was taken over by men in kilts and made over to be a haggis wagon, like something out of a Python sketch.
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The "cooly" from Hindostan may in time become a valuable article, but it will be long before he can be induced to emigrate in sufficient numbers: the Chinese will be
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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So the only people recieving this saga of self reflection "cooly" are the hacks that are too cowardly to admit their role in affecting the puclic psyce.
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Burbling synths slide cooly as pan flutes and glacial sound washes chill things out.
Twisting Melodies Beyond the Laws of Physics « PubliCola 2010
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Color is exaggerated to flamboyantly illustrate the wild characteristics of the creatures being depicted while in flight or cooly assessing us.
Tracey Harnish: Lori La Mont: The Status Symbol of Sports Tracey Harnish 2011
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The decision of how to proceed should have been made cooly and calmly, and after all of the pertinent experts had been consulted.
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The visuals are exquisitely loveable, mirroring the cooly cute design of Bob Staake, but it is a title with its own style and its own message.
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The decision of how to proceed should have been made cooly and calmly, and after all of the pertinent experts had been consulted.
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He kept watching us, carefully and cooly, so cooly that it made me shiver.
A Meeting With Qaddafi Estelle Bruno 2011
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