Definitions
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- noun Australia, derogatory, ethnic slur A
refugee who has settled inAustralia .
Etymologies
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From refugee + -o (“diminutive suffix”).
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Examples
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So nasho and even the rather official compo and the early pejorative reffo ` refugee 'show a desire to acclimatize the unfamiliar, not to be impressed, to cut down tall poppies.
knitandpurl commented on the word reffo
"Rose Pickles and her brothers saw them unloading the dust-white truck. They made a crowd standing about down there, and they looked so skinny and tired. They carried a big jarrah table in but no chairs. There were teachests, a clock, shovels and hoes, a couple of bashed old trunks. They all struggled and heaved up the stairs with that little woman barking instructions.
Cripes, Ted said. And I thought we looked like reffoes."
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, p 50 of the Graywolf Press hardcover edition
March 29, 2010