单词 | reffo |
释义 | reffo Austral. slang.|ˈrɛfəʊ| [Abbrev. refugee n.] A European refugee; spec. a refugee who left Germany or German-occupied Europe before the war of 1939–45. Now Obs. exc. Hist.
1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 59 Reffo, a refugee from Europe. 1951Cusack & James Come in Spinner 278 ‘The woman's a Viennese.’ ‘Oh, a reffo?’ 1955J. Cleary Justin Bayard x. 137 She talked even now in her letters of the Dagoes and Balts and reffos, the New Australians, who were taking over the country. 1960Times Lit. Suppl. 3 June 349/3 Stefan is the refugee—from Bulgaria... Lionel..considers Stefan ‘a bloody reffo’ and a nuisance. 1961P. White Riders in Chariot 221 He was..a blasted foreigner, and bloody reffo, and should have been glad he was allowed to exist at all. 1965Listener 2 Sept. 339/2 Australians..had their full quota of terms such as wogs, dagos, and so on, and refugees were commonly referred to as ‘bloody reffos’. 1976Australasian Post 8 Apr. 54/2 Several decades ago, the normal expression for migrants was ‘reffo’, which was then officially changed to ‘migrant’. |

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