guying

Verb (1)

guy (third-person singular simple present guys, present participle guying, simple past and past participle guyed)

1. (intransitive) To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November.
2. (transitive) To make fun of, to ridicule with wit or innuendo.
   • 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.1905, Edward S. Ellis, Deerfoot in The Mountains

Verb (2)

guy (third-person singular simple present guys, present participle guying, simple past and past participle guyed)

1. To equip with a support cable.
   • The swinging booms were then guyed out, and the boats made fast by geswarps, and everything in harbor style.1840, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the Mast

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