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The Beja people were one of two broad multi-tribal groupings supporting the Mahdi, and were divided into three tribes. One of these, the Hadendoa, was nomadic along Sudan's Red Sea coast and provided a large number of cavalry and mounted infantry(called jehadiya). They carried breech-loaded rifles, and many of them had acquired military experience in the Egyptian army. The name "Fuzzy Wuzzy" may be purely English in origin, or it may incorporate some sort of Arabic pun (possibly based on ghazi, "warrior"). It alludes to their butter-matted hair which gave them a "frizzy" look. This represents an attempt at humor on the part of British imperial troops, who had learned to respect the Hadendoa on the battlefield. [edit] The Children's rhyme is from a song called "Fuzzy Wuzzy" by Al Hoffman, Milton Drake, Jerry Livingston copyright 1944 Drake-Hoffman-Livingston, 1619 Broadway, New York, NY. The copyright may or may not still be current/active. It has nothing to do with Rudyard Kipling's poem remotely. It seems like Fuzzy Wuzzy was used to describe a bear who was Fuzzy or Wuz he. The song has an intro about a Private Elmer Johnson who went to Alaska and saw a strange animal. He took out a pen and wrote to the folks back home of what he saw. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair Wuz Fuzzy Wuzzy Fuzzy? It continues of how the bear visited the North Pole barber shop and got his fuzzy cut off. The seals of Hudson Bay had envied the bear's fuzz. But without the bear's, fuzzy rug, he wasn't what he used to be. It has nothing to do with Few today are aware of the nineteenth-century Sudanese origins of this familiar nursery rhyme. The first line, "...was a bear" translates roughly as "The Hadendoa warriors gave us (British) a great deal of trouble." The second line is odd as the "Fuzzy Wuzzy" were in fact well-known for their full heads of wooly hair." It is a story about an American service man in Alaska seeing a strange animal. If the copyright is not current/active, the whole song lyrics could be added.
Lonely Little Petunia (talk) 17:27, 26 March 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply] I've heard the so called "Lanchester's Law" - the strength of a military force is proportional to the square of its numbers - cited as the "Fuzzy Wuzzy formula" long before the Gamasutra article cited in the "Lanchester's Law" article. As explained to me - by operations researchers working for the U.S. Department of Defense - the connection to the rhyme is as follows: "Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear" - the fuzzy wuzzies gave the better trained British troops unexpected trouble. "Fuzzy wuzzy had no hair" - the formula explaining why the fuzzy wuzzies did so well was a clean, square root relationship, not a complex, "hairy" one. The strength of the forces scaled only linearly with the firepower of the British troops, but with the square of the numerically superior fuzzy wuzzy troops. "Fuzzy wuzzy wasn't fuzzy was he?" - play on words that the problem turned out not to be "hairy" after all. This may have nothing to do with the origins of the nursery rhyme. Then again, lots of innocent British nursery rhymes in fact have origins in violent or gruesome incidents in British history - e.g., "Mary, mary quite contrary" and Mary Queen of Scots' refusal to cooperate after being imprisoned by her cousin Elizabeth I, resulting ultimately in Elizabeth's having Mary beheaded. Warren Dew 04:50, 13 August 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply] I for one would think that most people today, at least in Britain, would have heard the phrase not in some '40s children's rhyme or a Rudyard Kipling poem, but in Dad's Army. Specifically, Corporal Jones' comments about having fought "the Fuzzy-Wuzzies" with Lord Kitchener. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.26.60.62 (talk) 15:16, 26 May 2008 (UTC) Seconded.84.66.131.34 (talk) 22:39, 3 August 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply] Seems a bit pointless having two articles, this and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadendoa - I'll leave it to others to debate which should have precedence.84.66.131.34 (talk) 22:39, 3 August 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply] Having read the section titled "Fuzzy Wuzzy Fallacy" I find I am unsure just what the fallacy was. It is unclear if the fallacy is that one soldier with twice the firepower IS or IS NOT the equivalent of 2 soldiers with half that firepower. Yes, I can guess, but guesswork should not be part of reading something here. 19:34, 16 October 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.252.180.248 (talk) What is the fuzzy wuzzy Bear saying?Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't really fuzzy, Was he?
Where did the rhyme fuzzy wuzzy come from?The expression derives from 'Fuzzy Wuzzy', one of Rudyard Kipling's Barrack Room Ballad poems, published in 1892. The poem is written in the voice of an unsophisticated British soldier and expresses admiration rather than contempt, although expressed in terms that sound patronizing and racist today.
What's the story about fuzzy wuzzy?"Fuzzy-Wuzzy" is a poem by the English author and poet Rudyard Kipling, published in 1892 as part of Barrack Room Ballads. It describes the respect of the ordinary British soldier for the bravery of the Hadendoa warriors who fought the British army in the Sudan and Eritrea.
What is the meaning of Wuzzy?(ˈfʌzɪˌwʌzɪ ) nounWord forms: plural -wuzzies or -wuzzy. archaic, offensive, slang. a Black native of any of various countries, esp one with curled hair.
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