buroo

See also: büroo

English

Alternative forms

• broo, burroo

Etymology

Representing a Scottish pronunciation of bureau.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bəˈɹuː/

Noun

buroo (plural buroos)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• booru

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from French bureau.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [buˈroo]
• Rhymes: -oo
• Hyphenation: bu‧ro‧o

Noun

buroo (accusative singular buroon, plural burooj, accusative plural buroojn)

1. (government) bureau

   Synonyms: kontoro, oficejo