English edit

Etymology edit

Blend of refugee +‎ Jew.

Noun edit

refujew (plural refujews)

  1. (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.

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