单词 | guy fawkes |
释义 | > as lemmasGuy Fawkes a. An effigy of Guy Fawkes traditionally burnt on the evening of November the Fifth, usually with a display of fireworks. Also in full Guy Fawkes. Guys were formerly paraded about in the streets on the anniversary of the ‘Gunpowder Plot’ (Nov. 5). They are now more frequently exhibited by children collecting money for fireworks during the days preceding Nov. 5.The figure is habited in grotesquely ragged and ill-assorted garments (whence sense 2), and was formerly accompanied by other similar effigies (representing unpopular persons), to which the name of ‘guys’ is often given by extension. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > persons and characters > [noun] > effigy in Guy Fawkes day festivities pope1674 guy1806 1806 W. Burrell in Lett. C. K. Sharpe (1888) I. 277 A month ago there was neither shape nor make in me... No guy ever matched me. 1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1430 Formerly an old cocked hat was the reigning fashion for a ‘Guy’. 1861 C. M. Yonge Young Step-mother xxix. 442 ‘There's Guy Fawkes,’ cried Albinia, as a procession of scare-crows were borne on chairs amid thunders of acclamation. 1863 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 18 July 494/2 Once on a fifth of November I found a ‘Guy’ trusted to take care of himself there, while his proprietors had gone to dinner. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. lx. 175 What are you doing there, dressed up in that way like a guy? 1968 Listener 7 Nov. 606 I'm afraid Simon is rather burnt. It was so dark some of the children thought he was the guy. 1970 R. Garrett Run Down iv. 95 It was the first Saturday of November. There were dozens of Guy Fawkes of varying merit lined along each street. < as lemmas |
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