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guy

1

[ gahy ]

noun

  1. Informal. a man or boy; fellow:

    He's a nice guy.

  2. none guys, Informal. people, regardless of their gender:

    Could one of you guys help me with this?

  3. Chiefly British Slang. a grotesquely dressed person.
  4. Often Guy. British. a grotesque effigy of Guy Fawkes that is paraded through the streets and burned on Guy Fawkes Day.


verb (used with object)

, guyed, guy·ing.
  1. to jeer at or make fun of; ridicule.

guy

2

[ gahy ]

noun

  1. a rope, cable, or appliance used to guide and steady an object being hoisted or lowered, or to secure anything likely to shift its position.

verb (used with object)

, guyed, guy·ing.
  1. to guide, steady, or secure with a guy or guys.

Guy

3

[ gahy; French gee ]

noun

  1. a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “woods.”

guy

1

/ ɡaɪ /

noun

  1. a rope, chain, wire, etc, for anchoring an object, such as a radio mast, in position or for steadying or guiding it while being hoisted or lowered
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verb

  1. tr to anchor, steady, or guide with a guy or guys
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guy

2

/ ɡaɪ /

noun

  1. informal.
    a man or youth
  2. a crude effigy of Guy Fawkes, usually made of old clothes stuffed with straw or rags, that is burnt on top of a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Day
  3. a person in shabby or ludicrously odd clothes
  4. informal.
    plural persons of either sex
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verb

  1. tr to make fun of; ridicule
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Guy

3

/ ɡaɪ /

noun

  1. GuyBuddy1936MUSMUSIC: blues singerMUSIC: guitarist Buddy, real name George Guy. born 1936, US blues singer and guitarist
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GUY

4

abbreviation for

  1. Guyana (international car registration)
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Word History and Origins

Origin of guy1

First recorded in 1800–10; after Guy Fawkes

Origin of guy2

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English gi(e), from Old French guie “a guide,” derivative of guier to guide
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Word History and Origins

Origin of guy1

C14: probably from Low German; compare Dutch gei brail, geiblok pulley, Old French guie guide, from guier to guide

Origin of guy2

C19: short for Guy Fawkes
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. give the guy to, British Slang. to escape from (someone); give (someone) the slip.
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Example Sentences

For a long time, I had Bill and Ted mixed up in my head with the guys from Dumb and Dumber, who never really appealed to me.

From Vox

I just sat there kind of in awe of this guy that I had seen on The Apprentice over and over again and in other shows.

From Ozy

In a late-night taping, the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast crew discusses his positioning as a “good guy” who can appeal to a broad cross-section of Americans.

Having Kyle Lowry, Serge Ibaka and Marc Gasol makes things pretty fun, and then the younger guys are all different combinations of feisty, strong, rangy and other good defense-y sounding words I’m not gonna think of right now.

In fact, the guy who slashed the fence was caught on camera.

If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.

Everywhere I go, ‘Hey Cartman, you must like Family Guy, right?’

When we had that meeting in the Caribbean, Jeffrey was holding his own and not only was he a pleasant host, he was pleasant guy.

And we have a lot of great guests this season: Greta Gerwig, Natasha Lyonne, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi is back—I love that guy.

Ass-kicking, bad guy-killing Carter is just a future spinster.

Fifty per cent, and with the ten that we are supposed to pay you, that don't leave a guy much profit.

One of them was the late Secretary of the Treasury, Guy, who had been turned out of his place for corruption.

"There's a guy outside wants to see you, Chief," Charlie Ward's assistant announced through the door.

Lamb worked his way up into the throng and got a glimpse of the other guy getting stiff on the backroom floor.

For instance, the guy that was kicked by a mule, he had a hoof mark on his head and his mule had a bloody hoof.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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