kuliBahasa Indonesia

drudge, coolie, cooly, galley slave, hack

Rare #24,495 of the corpus · 1.5 per million words · 6,342 occurrences

Noun

(ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer

English: coolie, cooly

A laborer who is obliged to do menial work

English: drudge, peon, navvy, galley slave

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One who works hard at boring tasks

English: hack, drudge, hacker

Less certain link between this word and this sense.

Word family of kuli

mengulimeN-kuli-kulireduplication kulinya…-nya kulian…-an

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coolie cooly drudge galley slave hack hacker navvy peon

Words that start with "kuli"

kuli kuliah kulit kulit ari kulit berwarna kulit bulu kulit bumi kulit hitam kulit kayu kulit kayu manis kulit kerang kulit keras kulit khatan kulit manis kulit perisai kulit putih