Guy Fawkes

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. fiil To celebrate Guy Fawkes Night.

   “... had been “Guy Fawkesing" since early in the morning.”

3. fiil 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.”

4. fiil To execute by hanging.

   “With Jackson and Stuart alive, and with Davis and his cabinet, Hood, Daniel and the Pollards, all Guy Fawkesed at an early period of the conflict, what might not have been the result ?”