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.

• IPA^(key): /fuxs/

fúx m (genitive singular fúx, nominative plural fúxar)

1. underachiever

   Synonym: bekkjarlalli m

   Antonym: dúx m

   • 1958, Árdís‎^[1], 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.