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Definition of 'buroo'English
Alternative forms
*broo
*burroo
Noun
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(Scotland|slang) The Labour Bureau; hence, unemployment benefits; the dole.
*193? , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), ‘Forsaken’, Smeddum , Canongate 2001:
*:Johnny kenned at once the coarse brute was drunk same as father was Friday nights when he got his money from the Broo .
*1990 , (Alasdair Gray), ‘Quiet People’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012 ), p. 461:
*:‘Anyway, MacFee is very good at stripping lead and copper and zinc and iron from old factories and houses that are going to be demolished – folk pay him to do that, and when work is short he never goes on the burroo .
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