Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to guy
Participle: guyed
Gerund: guying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | guy |
| you | guy |
| he;she;it | guys |
| we | guy |
| you | guy |
| they | guy |
Perfect
| I | have guyed |
| you | have guyed |
| he;she;it | has guyed |
| we | have guyed |
| you | have guyed |
| they | have guyed |
Past
| I | guyed |
| you | guyed |
| he;she;it | guyed |
| we | guyed |
| you | guyed |
| they | guyed |
Pluperfect
| I | had guyed |
| you | had guyed |
| he;she;it | had guyed |
| we | had guyed |
| you | had guyed |
| they | had guyed |
Future
| I | will guy |
| you | will guy |
| he;she;it | will guy |
| we | will guy |
| you | will guy |
| they | will guy |
Future Perfect
| I | will have guyed |
| you | will have guyed |
| he;she;it | will have guyed |
| we | will have guyed |
| you | will have guyed |
| they | will have guyed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | guy |
| you | guy |
| he;she;it | guy |
| we | guy |
| you | guy |
| they | guy |
Perfect
| I | have guyed |
| you | have guyed |
| he;she;it | have guyed |
| we | have guyed |
| you | have guyed |
| they | have guyed |
Imperfect
| I | guyed |
| you | guyed |
| he;she;it | guyed |
| we | guyed |
| you | guyed |
| they | guyed |
Pluperfect
| I | had guyed |
| you | had guyed |
| he;she;it | had guyed |
| we | had guyed |
| you | had guyed |
| they | had guyed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would guy |
| you | would guy |
| he;she;it | would guy |
| we | would guy |
| you | would guy |
| they | would guy |
Perfect
| I | would have guyed |
| you | would have guyed |
| he;she;it | would have guyed |
| we | would have guyed |
| you | would have guyed |
| they | would have guyed |
Imperative
| you | guy |
| we | Let's guy |
| you | guy |
Verbs conjugated like 'guy'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'guy'
buy,
gay,
gub,
gum,
gun,
gut,
abuy,
ague,
bay,
boy,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Coined by semantic widening from the name of Guy Fawkes (1570–1606), an English Catholic executed for his role in the Gunpowder Plot, which also came to refer to effigies of his image burned annually on Guy Fawkes Night. The name Guy is from Old French Gui, from a Frankish form of Proto-West Germanic *Widō (compare Old Dutch Wido), a short form of names beginning with the element *widu (“wood”), from Proto-Germanic *widuz. Cognate with Italian Guido. Doublet of guido.
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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Swift and other satirists mercilessly guyed the unlettered self-importance of the peddlars of such soul-food, exposing their humility and self-laceration as an egregious and obnoxious form of self-advertisement (s'excuser, c'est s'accuser). [2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 278:]
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Terry Kilmartin […], applauded for every ‘um’ and ‘ah’, knew that he was being guyed and had the charm to make it funny. [2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 187:]
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In between it all, he [Elon Musk] was reply guying to other people’s commentary and memes, and at times tweeting himself, about OpenAI and [Sam] Altman. [2025, Karen Hao, Empire of AI, New York City: Penguin Press, →ISBN:]
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To guy the speech in the manner of an old-fashioned 'ham' for cheap laughs.... [2000, John Southworth, Shakespeare the Player:]