susso

English

Etymology

From sus(tenance) +‎ -o.

Noun

susso (uncountable)

1. (Australia, slang) Unemployment relief; welfare; the dole. [from 20th c.]
   • 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 […]