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Mux vs Tux - What's the difference?

mux | tux |

As nouns the difference between mux and tux

is that mux is dirt, filth or muck while tux is a tuxedo.

As a verb mux

is to make a mess of something.

As an abbreviation MUX

is multiplexor.

As a proper noun Tux is

a cuddly cartoon penguin, the official Linux mascot.

mux

English

Etymology 1

Compare muck.

Noun

(-)
  • (obsolete) Dirt, filth or muck.

    • Verb

  • (obsolete) To make a mess of something

    • Etymology 2

    Abbreviation of multiplex, multiplexer.

    Noun

    (es)
  • a multiplexer

    • Verb

    (es)
  • to multiplex

    • Antonyms

    * (both noun and verb) demux

    See also

    * dub * MUX ----

    tux

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (colloquial) A tuxedo.
  • * 2013 , Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems''' (in ''The Guardian , 13 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/sep/13/russell-brand-gq-awards-hugo-boss]
    • After a load of photos and what-not, we descend the world's longest escalator, which are called that even as they de-escalate, and in we go to the main forum, a high ceilinged hall, full of circular cloth-draped, numbered tables, a stage at the front, the letters GQ, 12-foot high in neon at the back; this aside, though, neon forever the moniker of trash, this is a posh do, in an opera house full of folk in tuxes .