guy

1. 1.

   subject to laughter or ridicule

   “The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house”

   “The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher”

   “His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday”

   Synonymsridiculeroastblackguardlaugh atjest atribmake funpoke fun

   Broadermock

   Narrowerteasesatirizedebunkstultify
2. 2.

   steady or support with a guy wire or cable

   “The Italians guyed the Tower of Pisa to prevent it from collapsing”

   Broaderbrace

Other forms of guy

plural

guys·

past tense

guyed·

present participle

guying·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about guy

What does guy mean?

guy means "an informal term for a youth or man". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in guy?

guy has 1 syllable: guy. In IPA it is /ˈɡaɪ/.

What is another word for guy?

Close synonyms include cat, hombre, bozo, sod, guy cable. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is guy a common word?

guy is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.