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Show Guy. The tercentenary of the Gunpowder Plot is a lilting occasion lor noting the varletv of ways In which popular speech has utilized Fawkes" Christian name. Nowadays It is only a human being who can make a "guy" of himself; but in the thieves' slang of a century ago a "guy" meant a lantern Tin COBS Is tho converse of that of "derrick, 1 which used to mean a hangman and DOW means gallows-llko prone "Doing a guy," "guying o(T," mid the like, for prompt disappearance under n. ee.-lt . are still going strong And tho verb "to guy," originally meaning to make a Guy jfawaies "show'' of a person, has become so meLtphorlcal that Mark Twain can write of "the Roman street-boy guying guy-ing the gladiators from the dizzy gallery." .London Chronicle. |