folx
nounUK /fəʊks/ · US /foʊks/
Etymology 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.
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Alternative Alternative spelling of folks.
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Pronunciation spelling Eye dialect spelling of folks, representing African-American Vernacular English.
- 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] is stilde mear mariners, it cannot promise muche of their extraordinarie performancis, as hath bin made appeare formerlye in this perticuler designe, [...]G. T. C[lark], R. O. J. (23 July 1862), “Some Account of the Parishes of St. Nicholas and St. Lythan (continued)”, in Archaeologia Cambrensis, number xxxi, London, page 192
- De kommitte told me dere wus a great gedderin ob de culored folx at Brudder Jonson's Eatin House, [...]1857, Julius Caesar Hannibal, Black Diamonds, Or, Humor, Satire, and Sentiment, page 183:
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- If some do, da hypocrites, and dat don't militate 'gains de siety; for cause da some hypocrites, dat proves dat some good folx.1879, M. Star, in The American Temperance Cyclopaedia of History (Joseph Beaumont Wakeley), page 185, ostensibly quoting one Missa Param
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Internet, Especially Folks; people.
In LGBTQ slang and communities of color
- This time around the fine folx of Rocktober bring us the greatest rocknroll^([sic]) moments in television history.2004, Maximum Rocknroll, number 255:
- 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.] […]2018, Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed, →ISBN: