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  • noun A Hadendoa warrior of the Mahdi army

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Examples

  • The fuzzy-wuzzy stuff going on around her head doesn't help.

    Book Cover Smackdown! Project ULF: Acquisition vs. Last Drink Bird Head vs. WWW: Watch 2009

  • I actually thought Zarm was a potentially really interesting character — the idea of another Earth avatar who represents the ugly side of the fuzzy-wuzzy ecoharmony, the fierce Darwinian struggle for survival and reproduction from which it all emerges.

    Disturbing Thought of the Day 2008

  • Imus then coached Edwards to treat Dick Cheney as if he were a drunk driver who had just run over a kid, counsel I can't see Edwards taking, though it would be better than rolling over and playing fuzzy-wuzzy with Cheney the way Joe Lieberman shamelessly did.

    Men of Bronze: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • Unfortunately this sort of wrong-headed (fuzzy-wuzzy) sympathy (which leads to such fallacious reasoning) is very widespread, and usually our institutions of 'learning' have neither the skill nor the desire to counter it.

    The US may be in bad shape papabear 2008

  • Unfortunately this sort of wrong-headed (fuzzy-wuzzy) sympathy (which leads to such fallacious reasoning) is very widespread, and usually our institutions of 'learning' have neither the skill nor the desire to counter it.

    Archive 2008-08-10 papabear 2008

  • But you know who's also into all that fuzzy-wuzzy social media stuff?

    Daily Digest: The Bloggers at Night Are Big and Bright... 2008

  • All this touchy-feely rhetoric and sax-playing, all these fuzzy-wuzzy policy initiatives without ground rules or timetables. all this hopefulness.

    Seeing Sunshine In Moscow 2008

  • End childish guessing once and for all but without loosing that fuzzy-wuzzy feeling.

    Archive 2006-01-01 2006

  • There's also some analysis of games in parenting, and a bunch of fuzzy-wuzzy quotes and anecdotal stuff which doesn't exactly provide hard fact but does help non-gamers understand where some of the results are coming from.

    Interactive Australia 2009 Report Greg Tannahill 2008

  • There's also some analysis of games in parenting, and a bunch of fuzzy-wuzzy quotes and anecdotal stuff which doesn't exactly provide hard fact but does help non-gamers understand where some of the results are coming from.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Greg Tannahill 2008

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  • Fuzzy Wuzzy was the term used by British colonial soldiers for the nineteenth century Hadendoa warriors supporting the Sudanese Mahdi.

    Also, a poem by Kipling:

    So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan;

    You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man;

    And a children's nursery rhyme:

    Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear

    Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair

    Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?

    October 31, 2007

  • See also fuzzy wuzzy.

    October 31, 2007