Joker vs Guy - What's the difference?
joker | guy | Synonyms |
A person who makes jokes.
(slang) A funny person.
A jester.
A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.
An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
(New Zealand, colloquial) A man.
(obsolete and rare) A guide; a leader or conductor.
(primarily nautical) A support rope or cable used to guide, steady or secure something which is being hoisted or lowered. Also a support to secure or steady something prone to shift its position or be carried away, e.g. the mast of a ship or a suspension-bridge.
(British) An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November).
(archaic) A person of eccentric appearance or dress.
* W. S. Gilbert
(colloquial) A male
(colloquial, in the plural) people
(colloquial, of animals and sometimes objects) thing, creature
(colloquial, technology) thing, unit
(informal, term of address) Buster, Mack, fella
To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November.
To make fun of, to ridicule with wit or innuendo.
* 2003 , Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason , Penguin 2004, p. 278:
* 2006 , Clive James, North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 187:
As nouns the difference between joker and guy
is that joker is a person who makes jokes while guy is a guide; a leader or conductor.As a verb guy is
to equip with a support cable.As a proper noun Guy is
a given name derived from Germanic.joker
English
(wikipedia joker)Noun
(en noun)- Some joker keeps changing this web page.
Synonyms
* (jester ): court jester, fool, jesterSee also
*See also
* * * ----guy
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) guie.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* guy rope * guy wireEtymology 2
Named from (1570-1606), an English Catholic hanged for his role in the Gunpowder Plot.Noun
(en noun)- The lady who dresses like a guy .
- (Charles Dickens)
- A new guy started at the office today.
- Jane considers that guy to be very good looking.
- I wonder what those guys are doing with that cat?
- The dog's left foreleg was broken, poor little guy .
- This guy''', here, controls the current, and this '''guy , here, measures the voltage.
- Hey, guy , give a man a break, would ya?
Usage notes
* In plural, guys'' is not completely gender-neutral but it may refer to people of either sex in some circumstances and forms; the greeting "''Hey guys'''''" can generally refer to people of either gender. This usage is not always seen as accurate or correct. Referring to a group as "''guys''" usually means a group of men or a mixed-gender group, since describing a group of women as ''guys'', as in "''the could accurately be described as "''a bunch of '''guys'''''" in slang. The usage of the plural ''guys'' in the phrase "''some '''guys chased them away " would generally be assumed to mean men rather than women. * When used of animals, guy usually refers to either a male or one whose gender is not known; it is rarely if ever used of an animal that is known to be female. * In some varieties of US and Canadian English, you guys '' revives the distinction between a singular and plural ''you'', much like ''y'all in other varieties.Synonyms
* (US) (man) dude, fella, homey, bro * (British) (man) bloke, geezer, cove, fellow, chap * See alsoAntonyms
* (male) (l) * (male) (l)Derived terms
* bad guy * good guy * nice guy * nice guys finish last * you guysVerb
(en verb)- Swift and other satirists mercilessly guyed the unlettered self-importance of the peddlars of such soul-food, exposing their humility and self-laceration as an egregious and obnoxious form of self-advertisement (s'excuser, c'est s'accuser ).
- Terry Kilmartin [...], applauded for every ‘um’ and ‘ah’, knew that he was being guyed and had the charm to make it funny.