guy fawkes
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.70 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned as part of the Guy Fawkes Night celebrations.
Example Sentences
- "Guy Fawkeses of great pretension were paraded in various towns of the kingdom, and the exhibitors realized contributions far exceeding the usual donations."
- "When, however, the monster Guy Fawkeses came into fashion, considerably greater expense was gone to in " getting up " the figures."
- "Millions of little Guy Fawkeses are burned in England every year."
- "... had been “Guy Fawkesing" since early in the morning."
- "As soon as I reached home in the evening, W. V. had her lantern ready to go out Guy-Fawkesing."
- "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."