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BTW, as a boy we learnt for tiger, lion, fishy [the present common version in these parts [a fish with a toe!?] and the other many variations the n- word, which goes back to nineteenth century America. In one book I had as a child, there was actually an illustration of someone doing this to a poor unfortunate black slave, who was drawn in an offensive style: caricature. The provenance of the rhyme seems to be America by the use of the word "hollers", even though it is used in dialect English. Its etymology seems to be a variant of C16 hollow, from holla, from French holà stop! (literally: ho there!).