Fuzzy-Wuzzy

In "Fuzzy-Wuzzy," for example, the narrator calls his Sudanese opponent a "big black boundin 'beggar" but salutes him as "a first-class fightin 'man."

Five Best 2008

Epilogue: Cairo, 1899 1. Fuzzy-Wuzzy: Published in the Scots Observer, March 15, 1890, collected in Departmental Ditties, Barrack Room Ballads & Other Verse New York: U.S. Book Co., 1890, 63–66.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Epilogue: Cairo, 1899 1. Fuzzy-Wuzzy: Published in the Scots Observer, March 15, 1890, collected in Departmental Ditties, Barrack Room Ballads & Other Verse New York: U.S. Book Co., 1890, 63–66.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Epilogue: Cairo, 1899 1. Fuzzy-Wuzzy: Published in the Scots Observer, March 15, 1890, collected in Departmental Ditties, Barrack Room Ballads & Other Verse New York: U.S. Book Co., 1890, 63–66.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

If you think of such poems as, above all, "The Song of The Banjo," "Fuzzy-Wuzzy," "Danny Deever," "The Road to Mandalay," and many others one might mention, you can understand the music of the verse that holds so many minds enthralled.

Kipling, The Poet of Empire 1936

A young man recited 'Gunga Din' and, wilfully misinterpreting the gratitude of the audience that it was over for a desire for more, had followed it with 'Fuzzy-Wuzzy.'

Three Men and a Maid 1928

A young man had recited "Gunga Din" and, wilfully misinterpreting the gratitude of the audience that it was over for a desire for more, had followed it with "Fuzzy-Wuzzy."

The Girl on the Boat 1928

Even so, they might have rushed us if they had had the courage of the North American Indian, or the immortal "Fuzzy-Wuzzy."

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

A young man recited 'Gunga Din' and, wilfully misinterpreting the gratitude of the audience that it was over for a desire for more, had followed it with 'Fuzzy-Wuzzy.'

Three Men and a Maid Wodehouse, P. G. 1922

(1865–1936) 8207So ’ere’s to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your ’ome in the Soudan;

Quotations 1919