guying

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of guy.

   She spent the whole rehearsal guying the director's pompous instructions.

   Guying the mast against the wind kept it from toppling overnight.

   Note

   One spelling carries four quite different verbs, and what follows it tells them apart. With no object, guying is the 5th November custom of parading a Guy Fawkes effigy. Guying a person or a speech means ridiculing it, and guying a role means playing it for laughs. Guying a mast means bracing it with cable. The gerunds settle into the noun for mockery and the rigging noun.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The use of support ropes or cables to brace or steady an upright structure.

   The crew checked the guying on the radio tower before the gale arrived.

   Proper guying distributes the tension evenly across every anchor point.

   Similarbracing, rigging

3. 3
   noununcountable

   The act of mocking or ridiculing someone, especially by teasing them openly.

   His clumsy speech invited plenty of guying from the back rows.

   She took the good-natured guying in stride and laughed along with everyone.

   Similarteasing, ribbing, mockery, ridicule, jeering

   Oppositepraise

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