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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>quux</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../Q.html" title="Q"/><link rel="previous" href="quotient.html" title="quotient"/><link rel="next" href="qux.html" title="qux"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">quux</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quotient.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Q</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="qux.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="quux"/><dt xmlns="" id="quux"><b>quux</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/kwuhks/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Mythically, from the Latin semi-deponent verb quuxo, quuxare,
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quuxandum iri; noun form variously ‘quux’ (plural
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‘quuces’, anglicized to ‘quuxes’) and
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‘quuxu’ (genitive plural is ‘quuxuum’, for four
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u-letters out of seven in all, using up all the ‘u’ letters in
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Scrabble).]</p></dd><dd><p> 1. Originally, a <a href="../M/metasyntactic-variable.html"><i class="glossterm">metasyntactic variable</i></a> like
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<a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a> and <a href="../F/foobar.html"><i class="glossterm">foobar</i></a>. Invented by
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Guy Steele for precisely this purpose when he was young and naive and not
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yet interacting with the real computing community. Many people invent such
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words; this one seems simply to have been lucky enough to have spread a
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little. In an eloquent display of poetic justice, it has returned to the
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originator in the form of a nickname. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">interj.</span> See
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<a href="../F/foo.html"><i class="glossterm">foo</i></a>; however, denotes very little disgust, and is
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uttered mostly for the sake of the sound of it. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Guy Steele in his persona as ‘The Great Quux’, which
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is somewhat infamous for light verse and for the ‘Crunchly’
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cartoons. </p></dd><dd><p> 4. In some circles, used as a punning opposite of
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‘crux’. “<span class="quote">Ah, that's the quux of the matter!</span>”
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implies that the point is <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> crucial (compare
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<a href="../T/tip-of-the-ice-cube.html"><i class="glossterm">tip of the ice-cube</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 5. quuxy: <span class="grammar">adj.</span> Of or pertaining
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to a quux.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quotient.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Q.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="qux.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">quotient </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> qux</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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