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Guy Fawkesing

Guy Fawkesing is the present participle and gerund of Guy Fawkes.

Meaning of Guy Fawkes

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

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Questions about Guy Fawkesing

What is Guy Fawkesing the present participle and gerund of?
Guy Fawkesing is the present participle and gerund of Guy Fawkes.

Words near Guy Fawkesing in the dictionary

  1. Guy Fawkes Day
  2. Guy Fawkes Night
  3. Guy Fawkes' Day
  4. Guy Fawkesed
  5. Guy Fawkeses
  6. Guy Fawkesing
  7. guy friend
  8. guy friends
  9. guy line
  10. guy lines
  11. guy rope

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