Definition of "gooroo" [‖Goo•roo]

• Obsolete form of guru. (noun)

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• "We also passed a village to the left, containing about twenty houses, here a Nai gooroo, or person of rank, resides, and here I also got fruit-bearing specimens of Abies pendula."
• "That unhappy speculator in seersuckers and castor-oil died in prison, and a _gooroo_ (that is, a spiritual teacher) feed by the Baboo, desolated his last hour with the assurance that he should transmigrate into the bodies of seven generations of _gharree_-horses, and drag _feringhee_ sailormen, in a state of beer, from the ghauts to the punch-houses, all his miserable lives."
• "Gokool refused to prostrate himself at his feet while he should put his foot on his head; for which his gooroo was displeased ..."