Guying

There is evidence of "guying" an audience at times in some of the best companies on the part of some players of established reputations who should be ashamed of themselves, and who certainly should be punished for such offenses. ❋ Ned Wayburn (N/A)

This "guying" did not alter Bill's attitude towards ❋ Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden (N/A)

Miss Satterly hated to feel that she was worsted, and it was quite clear that Weary had all along been "guying" her. ❋ B. M. Bower (1905)

That she should have the ribald slang of the free-and-easy neighborhood at her tongue's end and be destitute of delicacy as a young cow might be expected; but we are hardly prepared to see one grown up among such surroundings so unutterably stupid as not to know when her companions are "guying" her. ❋ Unknown (1898)

Some of the other boys wanted to do some "guying," but Tom's prompt and vigorous rebuke to Dutcher had cooled the ardor of a lot of would-be teasers. ❋ Unknown (1895)

"guying" are the characteristic wit, and such smart tricks as bumping an unsuspecting comrade's head against the wall are applauded with shrieks of admiring laughter. ❋ Agnes H. Morton (N/A)

a little three legged milking stool and kind of guying Costello's mammoth show, in that funny way he had, and saying that Mr. Costello would probably say I was a matchless, intrepid, dauntless, fearless hero and adventurer, when all of a sudden that word adventurer put a thought into my head. ❋ Percy Keese Fitzhugh (1913)

And if any one thing undid Governor Palin as a person who could even be considered for the vice presidency, it was the merciless guying of her manner and personality by Tina Fey. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This necessitated my climbing the shears, which I did twice, before I finished guying it fore and aft and to either side. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is done for instance by perpetually guying the old Victorian virtues or limitations which, as they are no longer there, are not likely to retaliate. ❋ Kelly M. (2007)

Steven Brill, author of After, founder of The American Lawyer, Court TV and Brill's Content, now a pundit and Newsweek contributor, was wise-guying about the cable-and-network armchair generals who had irritated Dick Cheney so much. ❋ Unknown (2003)

They seemed to be guying Henri about riding a caribou, and Henri acted pleasantly, giggling and chuckling as men do, yet it did not seem to me plausical. ❋ Unknown (1996)

The reason we were shorthanded was a blowdown that splintered two of the center poles on the main top and busted up a few of the sports on the guying out gang. ❋ Longyear, Barry (1980)

It was that of a pipsqueak, backwoods evangelist, an unimportant nuisance back on Earth, but the butt of an occasional guying news story, but a man of no possible consequence. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1967)

Perhaps I could use my invisible bullets of heat to cut one of the cables guying the tower, so that it would come crashing down when Chaka was at the summit. ❋ Clarke, Arthur C. (1962)

In order to provide the electric facilities it is desirable, for the protection and safe operation of the line, to secure guying and tree clearing rights along the west edge of the University of Virginia's property adjoining Beverly Drive, in ❋ Unknown (1958)

"Why, how could the night wind make that sort of scratching sound?" asked Lub, doubtless wondering whether the other were simply guying him because of his being a greenhorn. ❋ Silas K. Boone (N/A)

Were they actually guying her, or were they innocents who really thought she did not want the flowers, or who did not know enough to think orchids beautiful? ❋ Grace Livingston Hill Lutz (N/A)