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De : [log in to unmask]>George Engle

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Envoyé : vendredi 8 septembre 2000 13:25

Objet : Re: Fuzzy Wuzzy

Partridge's Dictionary of Slang (5th ed) has the following entry--

 

Fuzzy-Wuzzy. A Soudanese tribesman, esp.as a dervish soldier : commemorated by Kipling in 1890 (reprinted in Barrack-Room Ballads,1892), as 'a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fighting man'. Military : late C 19-20, obsolescent. Ex his ' 'ayrick 'ead of 'air'. This implies that the term was used, but not invented, by Kipling.

 

George Engle