tux

See also: Tux

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌks
• enPR: tŭks, IPA^(key): /tʌks/

Noun

tux (plural tuxes)

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

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Middle English

Noun

tux

1. Alternative form of tusk

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz, with a metathesis of the /s/ and /k/. Both metathesized and unmetathesized forms are attested in Old English. However, it is the unmetathesized form that survived into modern English, and with a lack of palatalization; see also ascian for another case of non-palatalized sc that is also found as /ks/ in some variants.

Alternative forms

• tūsc

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuːks/

Noun

tūx m (nominative plural tūxas)

1. canine tooth

Declension

Declension of tux (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	tūx	tūxas
accusative	tūx	tūxas
genitive	tūxes	tūxa
dative	tūxe	tūxum

Derived terms

• tūxl

Descendants

• Middle English: tusk, tux
  • English: tusk