buroo
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See also: büroo
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Representing a Scottish pronunciation of bureau.
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buroo (plural buroos)
- (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”, in Every Short Story 1951-2012, Canongate, published 2012, page 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.
- 193?, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, ‘Forsaken’, Smeddum, Canongate 2001:
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buroo (accusative singular buroon, plural burooj, accusative plural buroojn)
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