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Also, the term "Guy" which is an eponym for Guy Fawkes https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/guy#Etymology_1 https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/guy#Etymology_1
by rusbus 6y ago
Also, the term "Guy" which is an eponym for Guy Fawkes
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/guy#Etymology_1 https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/guy#Etymology_1
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoWhenever I think of Guy I think of that one Guy from Galaxy Quest. I don't know if he even had a last name though.
- jobigoud 6y agoGuy Fleegman
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoI like to think of him as Crewman number 6.
- sukilot 6y agoAnd it's obverse, Che. (The famous person is named after the generic word for "some guy")
- dhosek 6y agoWhen I first encountered that in a Facebook post, I was skeptical but since I happened to be at the library at the time and mere feet away from a hardcopy OED. The OED corroborated it.