subs. (military).—A Soudanese tribesman.

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  1890.  KIPLING, National Observer, 8 March, p. 438, col. 1, ‘Fuzzy-Wuzzy.’

        So ’ere’s to you FUZZY-WUZZY and your ’ome in the Soudan,
You’re a pore benighted ’eathen but a first-class fightin’ man;
And ’ere’s to you FUZZY-WUZZY with your ’ay-rick ’ead of ’air,
You big, black bouncing beggar, for you bruk a British square.

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