Guy Fawkesed

Verb

Guy Fawkes (third-person singular simple present Guy Fawkeses, present participle Guy Fawkesing, simple past and past participle Guy Fawkesed)

1. (intransitive) To celebrate Guy Fawkes Night.
   • ... had been “Guy Fawkesing" since early in the morning.189?, The Boy's Own Annual, page 73
2. (ambitransitive) To blow up a building as an act of political sabotage.
   • 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
3. (transitive) To execute by hanging.
   • 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...1866, Philip Bennett Power, The Ill-used Postman

   Synonyms:

   string up, forhang, hang, ketch, send to the scaffold, scrag, stretch, truss, tuck up

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