Meaning of reffo | Babel Free

Definitions

A refugee who has settled in Australia.

Australia, derogatory, ethnic, slur

Examples

“‘It may be like⟳ this,’ he said ‘Australians are too bloody scared to be frankly unpleasant: Most of them hate⟳ the guts of reffos and other alien intruders, especially Jews and Dagos. But they like⟳ being liked and cannot resist⟳ giving help⟳ if it is needed, except, of course, if it′s the boss who needs it.[…]’”

“On the top floor behind the gabled windows, it was rumored, the reffo family slept. Mishka did not know⟳, until he began attending the regional school in Mossman at the age of six, that he was a reffo. He was born in the Daintree. His mother before him was born in Daintree. But his grandparents had arrived as refugees from a concentration camp in 1946 and the Bartoks were still a reffo family.”

“‘There are the reffoes,’ he said loudly. ‘Been here for over a week now and hardly been out at all.[…]’”

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