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fuzzy-wuzzy
noun- any black or dark-skinned native of a foreign land UK, 1892
A soldier’s term, originally for a Sudanese warrior, widened to include all of Africa and islands such as Fiji. Now offensive and disdainful. - He might as well have been the king of the Fuzzy-Wuzzies, or any other of the inconsequential outlanders that civilized people have looked down their noses at throughout history. — Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization, p. 30, 1995
- (during World War 2) a native of Papua New Guinea AUSTRALIA, 1942
- From time to time he gets some leave and this bright yellow man appears (Nan says it’s the pills he takes) and gives me some souvenirs, like the bayonet of a dead Japanese soldier or a pair of stone knives made by the Fuzzy-Wuzzies. — Phillip Adams, The Unspeakable Adams, p. 2, 1977
- a dust ball US
- The windows hadn’t been washed in months, and the rooms were full of dust and fuzzy-wuzzies. — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 24, 1947
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