refujew
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]refujew (plural refujews)
- (US, informal) A Jewish refugee.
- 1938, Anne Jackson Fremantle, Loyal enemy:
- […] Basque children, White Russians or refujews, but a whole empire in agony, a mastodon at bay, is beyond the limit of our imaginations.
- 1990, Frederic Raphael, After the war:
- 'Fancy him having a refujew in his gang,' Gladstone said.
Further reading
[edit]- “refujew n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present