tux

See also: tüx, Tux, and TUX

Translingual

Symbol

tux

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tuxináwa.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʌks/
• Rhymes: -ʌks

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

tux (plural tuxes)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of tuxedo
   • 2013 September 13, Russell Brand, “Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems'”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     After a load of photos and what-not, we descend the world's longest escalator, which are called that even as they de-escalate, and in we go to the main forum, a high ceilinged hall, full of circular cloth-draped, numbered tables, a stage at the front, the letters GQ, 12-foot high in neon at the back; this aside, though, neon forever the moniker of trash, this is a posh do, in an opera house full of folk in tuxes.

   • 2026 April 26, Linda Feldmann, “After the gunfire: Moments of grace at White House correspondents’ dinner”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Massachusetts: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     But in the depths of the Washington Hilton, packed with some 2,500 people, we were largely in the dark – a giant room full of reporters, clad in gowns and tuxes, eager to get the facts while trying to stay safe and obey instructions.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

Derived terms

• betuxed
• tuxed
• tuxie
• tuxy

Middle English

Noun

tux

1. alternative form of tusk

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuːks/

Noun

tūx m

1. alternative form of tūsc

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	tūx	tūxas
accusative	tūx	tūxas
genitive	tūxes	tūxa
dative	tūxe	tūxum

Derived terms

• tūxl

Q'eqchi

Noun

tux

1. sprout
2. mange

Further reading

• Ch'ina tusleb' aatin q'eqchi'-kaxlan aatin ut kaxlan aatin-q'eqchi' (Guatemala, 1998) [2]