Fuzzy Wuzzy
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Fuzzy-Wuzzy can refer to:
- HadendoaHadendoaHadendoa is the name of a nomadic subdivision of the Beja people. Other Beja tribes include the Bisharin and Ababda. The area inhabited by the Hadendoa is today parts of Sudan, Egypt and Eritrea.-Overview:...
, an East African tribe - Fuzzy-WuzzyFuzzy-WuzzyFuzzy-Wuzzy is a poem by the English author and poet Rudyard Kipling, published in 1892 as part of Barrack Room Ballads. It describes the respect of the ordinary British soldier for the bravery of the Hadendoa warriors who fought the British army in the Sudan.-Background:"Fuzzy-Wuzzy" was the term...
, a poem by Rudyard Kipling - Fuzzy Wuzzy AngelsFuzzy wuzzy angelsThe Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels was the name given by Australian troops to a group of Papua New Guinean people who, during World War II, assisted and escorted injured Australian troops down the Kokoda trail...
, the name given Papua New Guineans who assisted injured Australian troops during World War II - Fuzzy Wuzzy (song)Fuzzy Wuzzy (song)Fuzzy Wuzzy is a song written in 1944 by Al Hoffman, Milton Drake and Jerry Livingston. Its chorus is a well-known rhyme:Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bearFuzzy Wuzzy had no hairFuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy,was he?A variation sometimes used by children, is:...
, a 1944 novelty song, several lines of which have become a popular children's tongue-twister - 'Fuzzy Wuzzy', a common name of the tropical plant Kalanchoe tomentosa var. fievetii in the KalanchoeKalanchoeKalanchoe , also written Kalanchöe or Kalanchoë, is a genus of about 125 species of tropical, succulent flowering plants in the Family Crassulaceae, mainly native to the Old World but with a few species now growing wild in the New World following introduction of the species.Most are shrubs or...
genus - Fuzzy Wuzzy was a variety of Double Talk or Gibberish (language game)Gibberish (language game)Gibberish is a language game or secret language similar to Pig Latin that is played in the United States, Canada and Northern Ireland. Similar games are played in many other countries...
- Fuzzy Wuzzy Fallacy, another name for Frederick Lanchester's Square Law (see Lanchester's lawsLanchester's lawsLanchester's laws are mathematical formulae for calculating the relative strengths of a predator/prey pair. This article is concerned with military forces....
), stating that the power of a military force is proportional to the square of the number of units - Another name for a "Wooly Bear" caterpillar, Pyrrharctia isabella.