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
- Jonathon Green (2024) “refujew n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang