guy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
Etymology: Coined by semantic widening from the name of Guy Fawkes (1570–1606), an English Catholic executed for his role in the Gunpowder Plot, which also came to refer to effigies of his image burned annually on Guy Fawkes Night. The name Guy is from Old French Gui, from a Frankish form of Proto-West Germanic *Widō (compare Old Dutch Wido), a short form of names beginning with the element *widu (“wood”), from Proto-Germanic *widuz. Cognate with Italian Guido. Doublet of guido.
Inflected forms:
form: guys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: guying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: guyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: guyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November).
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
gloss: A person of eccentric appearance or dress; a "fright".
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: “But shan’t I look a guy?”
“Not a bit of it. Jist the very kick!”
I am always a perfect guy, whatever I wear, when I sit against a red curtain. You men say that a woman always knows when she’s good-looking, but I am happy to say I know when I look a guy.
And the lady from the provinces, who dresses like a guy,
And who “doesn’t think she dances, but would rather like to try” […].
Why are you so ashamed that her child saw you looking a guy, sprawled on the floor, spilling cakes?
gloss: A man or boy; a fellow.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: “You don't say so? I thought he was some guy from Pennsylvania.”
"Hi, guys. Did you have a fun time at school?" said Katherine.
"Yeah we did," said Stacy.
She was one of the guys, but they were also very much aware that she was an attractive young woman.
Let’s be honest. “Have I kissed too many guys?” is not a question that mature, sexually active women are likely to be asking Google.
gloss: A person (see usage notes).
pos: noun
tags: especially
in-plural
examples: You know, I don't believe any girl ever had any better friends than you two guys
My “Guys” actually constitute a collection of people that range from my nearest and dearest girlfriends, my immediate and extended family, co-workers and acquaintances that care.
My “guys,” as I call the group, are loving and hilarious, serious and the epitome of love. They are both male and female in their presence and have never had the experience of inhabiting a physical body—they are beings of light.
I recently rewatched the original Star Wars trilogy. I'm not a Star Wars guy, but I did enjoy them a lot more than I did the first time. / The movie seemed more like just Ellie's personal journey into being, like, "Wow, religion can be cool, I guess", which is fine, but I'm more of a sci-fi guy, so I would rather read the book.
gloss: Anything seen to have character and personality, such as an animal or a toy.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: The dog's left foreleg was broken, poor little guy.
I just want to play with my guys. My guys are my friends, they're stuffed animals or little action figures I have a lot of them.
gloss: dude, Buster, Mack, fella, bud, man.
pos: noun
tags: informal
term-of-address
examples: Hey, guy, give a man a break, would ya?
gloss: Thing, item (term that can be used to refer to any entity)
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: This guy, here, controls the current, and this guy, here, measures the voltage.
This guy is the partial derivative of that guy with respect to x.
gloss: To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make fun of, to ridicule with wit or innuendo.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The dusky hunters "guyed" the palefaces who could not do as well as they with their primitive weapons, even though the fire spouted from the iron tubes and the balls that could not be seen by the eye carried death farther than did the missiles launched by the natives.
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).
Terry Kilmartin […], applauded for every ‘um’ and ‘ah’, knew that he was being guyed and had the charm to make it funny.
In between it all, he [Elon Musk] was reply guying to other people’s commentary and memes, and at times tweeting himself, about OpenAI and [Sam] Altman.
gloss: To play in a comedic manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To guy the speech in the manner of an old-fashioned 'ham' for cheap laughs....
Derived words: as the next guy
bad guy
big guy
cable guy
cisguy
cis guy
cis-guy
demiguy
divorced guy energy
don't be that guy
Doomguy
everyguy
fall-guy
fall guy
family guy
First Guy
good guy
go-to guy
guybrows
guy code
guydom
guy-friend
guy friend
guyhood
guyish
guylike
guy line
guyline
guyliner
guyness
Guys Forest
Guys Hill
guy talk
guy-wire
guy with camera
I'm a guy
I'm a trans guy
little guy
merguy
my guy
nice guy
nice guys finish last
nice guy syndrome
one guy
pizza guy
regular guy
reply guy
should see the other guy
stand-up guy
that guy
this guy
tough guy
tough-guy
transguy
trans guy
wife guy
wiseguy
wise-guy
wise guy
you guys
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: хо́ра
roman: hóra
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 人
roman: rén
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 人們 /人们
roman: rénmen
lang: Czech
word: (ty, Moravian ti) lidi
lang: Czech
word: Moravian děcka (ty)
lang: Dutch
word: gasten
lang: Dutch
word: jongens
lang: Esperanto
word: uloj
lang: Finnish
word: kaverit
lang: Finnish
word: tyypit
lang: French
word: gars
lang: German
word: Typen
lang: German
word: Kerle
lang: German
word: Leute
lang: Italian
word: gente
lang: Japanese
word: やつら
roman: yatsura
lang: Japanese
word: 奴ら
roman: yatsura
lang: Portuguese
word: pessoal
lang: Portuguese
word: galera
lang: Portuguese
word: caras
lang: Portuguese
word: gente
lang: Russian
word: лю́ди
roman: ljúdi
lang: Tatar
word: халык
roman: xalıq