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English
Etymology
From sus(tenance) + -o.
Noun
susso (uncountable)
- (Australia, slang) Unemployment relief; welfare; the dole.
- 1999, Kim Scott, Benang, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 200:
- It was incomprehensible to me: Uncle Will, who had been refused ‘Susso’ in the Depression and told, instead, to go to the Aborigines Department for rations wanted to name his father as among the very first to ‘settle’ at Gebalup