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Sux vs Tux - What's the difference?

sux | tux |

As nouns the difference between sux and tux

is that sux is suxamethonium while tux is a tuxedo.

As a verb sux

is sucks (in the sense of being inferior or objectionable).

As a proper noun Tux is

a cuddly cartoon penguin, the official Linux mascot.

sux

English

Noun

(-)
  • (informal) Suxamethonium.

    • Verb

  • (nonstandard, slang) Sucks (in the sense of being inferior or objectionable).
  • * 2000 , Jean Davies Okimoto, To Jaykae: Life Stinx
    • The whole thing really sux too. i got caught skipping and the school called my mom.
  • * 2007 , Windows Vista magazine (Winter 2007)
    • You can post updates about your life and your new friends will reply: "OMG that sux ", "LOL you are teh funnay!"...
  • * 2007 , Gary Denne, The Matt Zander Journals
    • Totally sux . I'd even settle for an in-depth conversation about the weather right now. I'm not used to being alone like this.

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    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 .