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Guy   /gaɪ/   Listen
Guy

noun
1.
An informal term for a youth or man.  Synonyms: bozo, cat, hombre.  "The guy's only doing it for some doll"
2.
An effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned on a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Day.
3.
A cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent).  Synonyms: guy cable, guy rope, guy wire.
verb
(past & past part. guyed; pres. part. guying)
1.
Subject to laughter or ridicule.  Synonyms: blackguard, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roast.  "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher" , "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"
2.
Steady or support with a guy wire or cable.



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"Guy" Quotes from Famous Books



... outward voyage was occupied in reading 'Daniel Quorm,' one of Mark Guy Pearse's books, and in attending religious meetings in the evening in the sail-maker's room. There were several relief crews on board for the various ships of the station; hence there were many Christians, and these evening ...
— From Lower Deck to Pulpit • Henry Cowling
... say?" Kite muttered, frowning, twisted his head around and called down a back passage, "Louie—Oh, Louie!" and when an overalled porter, rather messy, shuffled to the desk, put the low toned query, "D'you see any stranger guy gripping a sole leather shirt-box snoop by out yestiddy, after one, thereabouts?" And I added ...
— The Million-Dollar Suitcase • Alice MacGowan
... or peculiar-looking person is described as a guy. This word comes from the name of Guy Fawkes, the Gunpowder Plotter, through the effigies, or "guys," which are often burned ...
— Stories That Words Tell Us • Elizabeth O'Neill
... Jesse were busy clearing a place for the tent. "I want the fire right close up to the tent," said John, "and we don't want to burn off either a tent pole or an overhead guy rope." ...
— The Young Alaskans on the Missouri • Emerson Hough
... were being planned in Whitehall; and he knew, still better, that his own people would be against the programme to a man. The colonialism of the French-Canadians was immitigable and ingrained. They had secured from the British parliament in 1774 special immunities and privileges as the result of Sir Guy Carleton's hallucination that given these the French-Canadian habitant would assist the British authorities in chastising the rebellious American colonists into submission. These privileges, continued and embodied in the act of confederation, ...
— Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics • J. W. Dafoe


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