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In England, November 5—Guy Fawkes Day—is celebrated by setting off fireworks and lighting bonfires. Human likenesses made of tattered clothes stuffed with hay or rags are burned on the bonfires. The day is named after a 17th-century man, Guy Fawkes, who led a plot to blow up the British Parliament buildings. Fawkes managed to hide 20 barrels of gunpowder in the cellars of the buildings. However, the plot was discovered before he could carry out his plans. He was seized and later put to death. The human likenesses burned on the fires came to be called guys. The verb guy “to ridicule” is derived from this story also. The use of the word was extended to similar figures and then to a person of strange appearance or dress. In the US, the word came to mean simply “man” and in time “a person of either sex.”
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Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2024
Not necessarily as the guy who’s getting the ball, but boxing out, being in the right spot.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 1 Sep. 2021
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“Guy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guy. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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guy
1 of 3 nounguy
2 of 3 verbguy
3 of 3 nounNoun
probably from Dutch gei "a rope used to control a sail"
Noun
named for Guy Fawkes 1570–1606 English criminal
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