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noun
a Romanian Jew who emigrated from Romania to the United States in the early 20th century; so called because they travelled across Romania on foot before oftentimes being provided with train and ship tickets by charitable Jewish organizations once they reached the Austro-Hungarian border.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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History
From Yiddish פֿוסגייער (fusgeyer, “wayfarer, footgoer”). Doublet of footgoer.
