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Icelandic
Etymology
Borrowed from Danish fuks (“poor/underachieving student”), from German Fuchs, Fux (“new student, fresher”), older also Feix, Feits, probably from archaic Feist (“fart”), from Middle High German vīst; see feist.
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Noun
fúx m (genitive singular fúx, nominative plural fúxar)
- underachiever
1958, Árdís, number 26, page 25:Dúxinn hefur öllu að tapa en fúxinn allt að vinna.- The overachiever has everything to lose but the underachiever everything to gain.
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