folx

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English

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Etymology

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    Variant of folks. While the word was already gender-neutral, the suffix -x is a deliberate social signal of awareness of sexual minorities. Compare English Latinx.

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    folx pl (plural only)

    1. Alternative spelling of folks [1600s],
    2. Eye dialect spelling of folks, representing African-American Vernacular English. [1800s]
      • 1628 February 26, George Thomas Clark, quoting Thomas Button, Some account of sir Robert Mansel ... and of sir Thomas Button, Dowlais, published 1883, page 86:
        I presume yor lo. will fynde to be very stronge besides the qualitie of the peticonars to be lookte vppon, whoe if they be noe other then as folx [also fox][1] is stilde mear mariners, it cannot promise muche of their extraordinarie performancis, as hath bin made appeare formerlye in this perticuler designe, [...]
      • 1857, Julius Caesar Hannibal, Black Diamonds, Or, Humor, Satire, and Sentiment, page 183:
        De kommitte told me dere wus a great gedderin ob de culored folx at Brudder Jonson's Eatin House, [...]
      • 1879, M. Star, in The American Temperance Cyclopaedia of History (Joseph Beaumont Wakeley), page 185, ostensibly quoting one Missa Param:
        If some do, da hypocrites, and dat don't militate 'gains de siety; for cause da some hypocrites, dat proves dat some good folx.
    3. (now chiefly Internet slang, especially in LGBTQ slang and communities of color) Folks; people.
      • 2004, Maximum Rocknroll, number 255:
        This time around the fine folx of Rocktober bring us the greatest rocknroll[sic] moments in television history.
      • 2018, Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed, →ISBN:
        I write this book with the goal of showing you that Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous folx are not a “was,” that we are [...still present.] []

    References

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    1. ^ G. T. C[lark], R. O. J. (1862 July) “Some Account of the Parishes of St. Nicholas and St. Lythan (continued)”, in Archaeologia Cambrensis[1], number xxxi, London, page 192

    Anagrams

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    Franco-Provençal

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    Etymology

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    Inherited from Latin falcem.

    Noun

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    folx m (plural folx)

    1. (ORB, broad) scythe
      Synonym: dâly

    References

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    • faux in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
    • folx in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

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