[PW] Re: Fuzzy wuzzy - a lovely, warm emotion

[Franco, Adrienne]

I remember a poem from childhood:

"Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear
Fuzzy wuzzy had no hair
Fuzzy wuzzy wasn't really fuzzy, was he?"

This is an example of a benevolent use of the term.  I seem to recall
children describing their stuffed animals as being "fuzzy wuzzy" also.

Adrienne Franco / Iona College Libraries

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Subject: [PW] Re: Fuzzy wuzzy - a lovely, warm emotion

I'd have to say that on this side of the Atlantic we'd use "warm and 
fuzzy" for sentimental emotionality, but "fuzzy wuzzy" only as a 
racist term of abuse for people of African origin.
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