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noun - (British) An effigy of w:Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes burned on Bonfire Night
proper noun
- (given name, male).
Translations: - French: Guy
- Italian: Guido
Etymology: Old French form of Germanic Wido, a short form of names beginning with the element witu "wood", such as Witold and Widukind.
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noun - A support cable used to guide, steady or secure something.
verb
- (intransitive) To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November.
- (transitive) To make fun of, to ridicule with wit or innuendo.
- 2003: Swift and other satirists mercilessly guyed the unlettered self-importance of the peddlars of such soul-food, exposing their humility and self-laceration as an egregious and obnoxious form of self-advertisement (s'excuser, c'est s'accuser). " Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 278)
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