fúx

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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.

Pronunciation

Noun

fúx m (genitive singular fúx, nominative plural fúxar)

  1. underachiever
    • 1958, Árdís‎[1], 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

Synonyms

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