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to guy at
2. transitive. (Originally Theatrical slang.) To make an object of ridicule or derisive wit, to ridicule by innuendo; to trifle with a theatrical part. Also to guy at.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (transitive)] > make ridiculous
to make (a) mock ofc1475
ridiculize?1615
turn1673
ridicule1684
to make a hare of1830
farcify1834
guy1854
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > satire > satirize [verb (transitive)]
satire1602
satirize1619
parodize1768
guy1854
1854 A. C. Mowatt Autobiogr. Actress xv. 227 Good gracious! the audience will guy you!.. ‘Guy me? What do you mean by guy?’.. ‘Why, laugh at you, to be sure—and chaff you!’
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxvi. 278 The Roman street-boy who..guyed the gladiators from the dizzy gallery.
1885 J. K. Jerome On Stage 151 I particularly remember..being ‘guyed’ on one occasion... The stage manager insisted on my wearing a most outrageous costume. I knew it would be laughed at.
1890 Lit. World 11 July 20 Mr. Burnand does not set himself to guy the book.
1890 A. Conan Doyle Sign of Four (ed. 3) vii. 116 I'm guyed at by the children.
1890 J. Jefferson Autobiogr. 219 With all this at stake, some wanton actor deliberately ‘guys’ his part and overturns the patient care of his comrade.
1893 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 384/2 She and Edith Merry had been studying Anglo-Saxon together, and he had guyed them both about it, calling them blue-stockings.
1895 W. Archer Theatr. ‘World’ 1894 xliii. 287 Larking and guying on the stage are my abhorrence.
1898 J. Hollingshead Gaiety Chron. x. 414 The actors, I am bound to say, treated this curious fossil of dramatic protection with more than proper respect, and did not ‘guy’ the parts allotted to them.
1906 Daily Chron. 31 Oct. 5/5 We must make an end of that disgusting blunder of guying them [sc. arrested suffragettes] up in hideous prison uniforms.
1963 Times 27 May 8/2 Francoise Sagan, British phlegmatism and many other picturesque aspects of contemporary life in the 1960s are gently but tellingly guyed by Mr. Kohout.
1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 328 Vociferous women are guyed in the press.
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