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"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 soldier for the bravery of the Hadendoa warriors who fought the British army in Sudan and Eritrea .
Fuzzy-Wuzzy can refer to: The nickname of the Hadendoa tribe of East Africa, so named for their elaborate hairstyles. Fuzzy-Wuzzy", a poem by Rudyard Kipling * The fictional bear in a tongue-twister nursery rhyme; Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels, the name given to Papua New Guineans who assisted injured Australian troops during World War II
Fuzzy-Wuzzy; G. Gentleman ranker; The Gods of the Copybook Headings ... Submarines (poem) The Sweepers (poem) T. Tommy (Kipling poem) ... Text is available under the ...
Rudyard Kipling's "Fuzzy Wuzzy", composed between 1922 and 1923, was revised at the same time, but remains unpublished. [3] Britten's biographer, David Matthews, wrote of "Beware" and "O that I had ne'er been Married" that it was "a little disconcerting to find the texts of both of these songs are warnings against women". [4]
Their elaborately styled hair gained them the name Fuzzy-Wuzzy among British troops during the Mahdist War, after which Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem by the same name. [14] Corporal Jones, a character in Dad's Army frequently referred to the "Fuzzy-Wuzzies" when discussing his exploits in the army of Lord Kitchener.
The rhymes in these poems show varying attempts at pronouncing "Klea" from the English spelling, and the rhyme with "fear" shows British English arhotic pronunciation. More celebrated and of higher literary quality [ according to whom? ] , but taking substantial liberties for the exact events, is the mention of the battle in verse two of Sir ...
"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.
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