fúx

See also: Fux

Icelandic
FWOTD – 1 October 2019

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish fuks (“poor/underachieving student”), from German Fuchs, Fux (“new student, fresher”), older also Feix, Feits, probably from archaic Feist (“fart”), from Middle High German vīst; see feist.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fuxs/

Noun

fúx m (genitive singular fúx, nominative plural fúxar)

  1. underachiever
    • 1958, Árdís‎, number 26, page 25:
      Dúxinn hefur öllu að tapa en fúxinn allt að vinna.
      The overachiever has everything to lose but the underachiever everything to gain.

Declension
declension of fúx
m-s1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fúx fúxinn fúxar fúxarnir
accusative fúx fúxinn fúxa fúxana
dative fúx fúxinum fúxum fúxunum
genitive fúx fúxins fúxa fúxanna

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