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Guy Fawkes en · NOUN
Etymology
From Guy Fawkes, who took part in a failed plot to blow up the English parliament in 1605 and who was sentenced to being hanged, drawn, and quartered.
Meanings
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An effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned as part of the Guy Fawkes Night celebrations.
Millions of little Guy Fawkeses are burned in England every year.
1892, Oliver E. Murray, The Black Pope:When, however, the monster Guy Fawkeses came into fashion, considerably greater expense was gone to in " getting up " the figures.
1861, Henry Mayhew, London labour and the London poor - Volume 3, page 65:Guy Fawkeses of great pretension were paraded in various towns of the kingdom, and the exhibitors realized contributions far exceeding the usual donations.
1851, Edmund Burke, The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year:
Forms
Deriveds
Guy Fawkes Night · Guy Fawkes Day
Synonyms
guy
Translations (1)
cy Guto Ffowc (effigy burned in Bonfire Night celebrations)
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Guy Fawkes en · VERB
Etymology
From Guy Fawkes, who took part in a failed plot to blow up the English parliament in 1605 and who was sentenced to being hanged, drawn, and quartered.
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(intransitive) To celebrate Guy Fawkes Night.
... had been “Guy Fawkesing" since early in the morning.
189?, The Boy's Own Annual, page 73:As soon as I reached home in the evening, W. V. had her lantern ready to go out Guy-Fawkesing.
1897, The Child-study Monthly - Volume 3, page 180:
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(ambitransitive) To blow up a building as an act of political sabotage.
They'd try some Guy-Fawkesing on the British officials and their families. It was the only way they had to make the British government realize that they did not intend to pay taxes they hadn't voted on.
1950, Paul Revere and the minute Men, page 85:The burning of a few heretics would be in principle no more repugnant to us than gagging; neither would a little Guy Fawkesing about Westminster, though the latter diversion might come home to honourable members disagreeably.
1873, “The Late Attempt at Suicide”, in Blackwood's Magazine, volume 113, page 496:I could be at least a messenger to the higher-ups who'd be busy Guy-Fawkesing the Drake Hotel or the Palmer House – because it was that to Eddie Dawson, hauling up gunpowder in the tunnels.
1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC:"Ay, and I shall take it away from 'em, sir ; for if the worst comes to the worst, I shall have made all my plans before, and I'll do a bit o' Guy Fawkesing." " What do you mean ?" " Why, I should ha' thought you'd ha' understood that, sir." " Of course I do ; but how could you blow up the castle?"
1900, George Manville Fenn, The Young Castellan: A Tale of the English Civil War, page 86:
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(transitive) To execute by hanging.
With Jackson and Stuart alive, and with Davis and his cabinet, Hood, Daniel and the Pollards, all Guy Fawkesed at an early period of the conflict, what might not have been the result ?
1869, The Old Guard:'tis the Fifth of November, And, being at leisure, I write To say that my club owns a member Who ought to be Guy-Fawkesed at sight.
1907, The Grand magazine - Volume 6, page 517:The barber being sure that all were on his side, now dropped his voice into tones sepulchral and solemn, and said slowly and deliberately; “If things don't mend, he must be Guy Fawkesed; Farmer Slade's barn was burnt by accident last Guy Fawkes' day; and no one ever found out who did it; and there's often a fire on Guy Fawkes' day; 'tis quite natural there should be when so many squibs are flying about."
1866, Philip Bennett Power, The Ill-used Postman:
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Synonyms
string up · ketch · stretch · send to the scaffold · truss · string up · scrag · Guy Fawkes · tuck up · hang · forhang
wikipedia: Guy Fawkes