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quux
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/kwuhks/ , n. [Mythically, from the Latin semi-deponent verb quuxo, quuxare,
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quuxandum iri; noun form variously quux (plural quuces , anglicized to
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quuxes ) and quuxu (genitive plural is quuxuum , for four u-letters out of
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seven in all, using up all the u letters in Scrabble).] 1. Originally, a
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metasyntactic variable like foo and foobar. Invented by Guy Steele for
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precisely this purpose when he was young and naive and not yet interacting
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with the real computing community. Many people invent such words; this one
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seems simply to have been lucky enough to have spread a little. In an
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eloquent display of poetic justice, it has returned to the originator in the
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form of a nickname. 2. interj. See foo ; however, denotes very little
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disgust, and is uttered mostly for the sake of the sound of it. 3. Guy
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Steele in his persona as The Great Quux , which is somewhat infamous for
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light verse and for the Crunchly cartoons. 4. In some circles, used as a
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punning opposite of crux. Ah, that's the quux of the matter! implies that
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the point is not crucial (compare tip of the ice-cube ). 5. quuxy: adj. Of
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or pertaining to a quux.
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