Guy Fawkes
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Guy Fawkes
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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.
noun Guy Fawkeses
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An effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned as part of the Guy Fawkes Night celebrations.
Guy Fawkeses of great pretension were paraded in various towns of the kingdom, and the exhibitors realized contributions far exceeding the usual donations.
Similar: guy
verb Guy Fawkeses · Guy Fawkesing · Guy Fawkesed
- To celebrate Guy Fawkes Night. ... had been “Guy Fawkesing" since early in the morning.
- 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.
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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 there's
Similar: string up, forhang, Guy Fawkes, hang, ketch, send to the scaffold, scrag, stretch, truss, tuck up
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