quux: /kwuhks/ n. [Mythically, from the Latin semi-deponent
verb quuxo, quuxare, quuxandum iri; noun form variously `quux'
(plural `quuces', anglicized 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, a
metasyntactic variable like foo and foobar. Invented by Guy
Steele for precisely 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.
interj. See foo; however, denotes very little disgust, and is
uttered mostly for the sake of the sound of it. 3. Guy Steele in
his persona as `The Great Quux', which is somewhat infamous for
light verse and for the `Crunchly' cartoons. 4. In some circles,
used as a punning opposite of `crux'. "Ah, that's the quux of the
matter!" implies that the point is _not_ crucial (compare tip of
the ice-cube). 5. quuxy: adj. Of or pertaining to a quux.
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