QUUX
interjection
A exclamation of disgust; feh, yuck
[1983+ Computer; said to have been coined by Guy Steele, editor of the1983 The Hacker's Dictionary]
The Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition by Barbara Ann Kipfer, PhD. and Robert L. Chapman, Ph.D.
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/kwuhks/ [Mythically, from the Latin semi-deponent verb quuxo, quuxare,quuxandum iri; noun form variously "quux" (plural "quuces", anglicised to"quuxes") and "quuxu" (genitive plural is "quuxuum", for four u-letters out of seven in all, using up all the "u" letters in Scrabble).]
1. Originally, ametasyntactic variable like foo and foobar. Invented by Guy Steele forprecisely this purpose when he was young and naive and not yet interacting with the real computing community. Many people invent such words; this one seems simply to have been lucky enough to have spread a little. In an eloquent display of poetic justice, it has returned to the originator in the form of a nickname.
2. See foo; however, denotes very little disgust, and is uttered mostly forthe sake of the sound of it.
>A conventional variable name used for an unspecified entity whose exact nature depends on context.<
