Question

What do "Bizzo" and "Furphy" mean?

Community Answer

1.) Bizzo is 'business', as in 'it's none of your business' or 'mind your own bizzo', but I honestly haven't heard it since the 80s. Even then, 'beeswax' (as in 'mind your own beeswax') was more popular. Both of them are pretty much kid's things to say. 2.) A Furphy is a tall tale. It comes from old steel water carts made by the firm 'Furphy and Furphy' back in the 19th century that were used on farms, but were also taken over to the battlefields in WWI. The troops would gather around them to have a drink of water and swap stories/gossip and information that could end up being second, third, or fourth hand and thus wasn't always reliable. Hence, the phrase telling a Furphy was born.