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From Oxford English Dictionary

typhoon

/tifoon/

• noun a tropical storm in the region of the Indian or western Pacific oceans.

― ORIGIN partly from Arabic, partly from a Chinese dialect word meaning ‘big wind’

coolie

/kooli/

• noun (pl. coolies) 1 dated an unskilled native labourer in India, China, and some other Asian countries. 2 offensive a person from the Indian subcontinent or of Indian descent.

― ORIGIN from a Hindi word meaning ‘day-labourer’.



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