Word.ws English Dictionary

buroos

buroos is the plural of buroo.

Meaning of buroo

Noun

buroo (plural buroos)

  1. (Scotland, slang) The Labour Bureau; hence, unemployment benefits; the dole.
    • Johnny kenned at once the coarse brute was drunk same as father was Friday nights when he got his money from the Broo.193?, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, ‘Forsaken’, Smeddum, Canongate 2001

Questions about buroos

What is buroos the plural of?
Buroos is the plural of buroo.

Words near buroos in the dictionary

  1. burong mangga
  2. burong mustasa
  3. Buronga
  4. burons
  5. buroo
  6. buroos
  7. buros
  8. burosumab
  9. Burot
  10. burough
  11. buroughs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: buroos (page history and authors); buroo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “buroos.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/buroos. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.