プータロー

noun

unemployed person; drifter; vagrant

Colloquial and often mildly derogatory. It usually implies someone is out of work, idle, or drifting without a steady occupation, rather than a neutral administrative term for unemployment.

• 彼かれは大だい学がくを出でてからしばらくプータローだった。

  After graduating from university, he was unemployed for a while.

• 仕し事ごとも探さがさず、プータローみたいな生せい活かつをしている。

  He is not even looking for work and is living like a drifter.

noun

day labourer; dockside day labourer

Only when written 風太郎

Rare, older or specialized use restricted to the spelling 風太郎. The gloss particularly points to day labourers working around the docks.

• 「風ふう太た郎ろう」は、港みなとで働はたらく日ひ雇やとい労ろう働どう者しゃを指さす古ふるい言いい方かたとして使つかわれる。

  風太郎 is used as an old term for a day labourer working at a port.