Meaning of buroo | Babel Free

Definitions

The Labour Bureau; hence, unemployment benefits; the dole.

Scotland, slang

Examples

“Johnny kenned at once the coarse brute was drunk same as father was Friday nights when he got his money from the Broo.”

“‘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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