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It was the name of a film made way back in 1902 so I guess that where the expression comes from
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000418/...
I dunno but my grandma used that saying when she was alive.
At: www.phillipmartin.info there is the following quote:
"I'd always heard of "the wild man of Borneo" but really didn't know where that came from. In Malay, the words "orang utan" translated as "jungle man" or "wild man". So, if you ever see a native in the movies (with a bone in his nose) screaming "ooga ooga!", you now know there is no way that is the actual wild man of Borneo."
I found a few sites that referred to orangutans, so many the above is true. I have never seen the movie "Wild Man of Borneo", so I am not sure if it refers to a real man or not.
I have heard the phrase used in reference to someone's appearance -especially with bed-head!
The wild man of Borneo is an Orang utan, they are wild haired and rather scruffy looking, which explains the saying.
they are scruffy and hairy people. So when you see a hairy man down the street its very likely his name is borneo lol
because westeners had never seen the tribes of borneo and they looked wild to them .
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