guy vs rib

guy

verb
  • To make fun of, to ridicule with wit or innuendo. 

  • To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November. 

  • To play in a comedic manner. 

  • To equip with a support cable. 

noun
  • A support rope or cable used to aid in hoisting or lowering. 

  • An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November). 

  • Buster, Mack, fella, bud, man. 

  • character, personality (not referring to a person, but pretending to) 

  • A support to secure or steady structures prone to shift their position or be carried away (e.g. the mast of a ship or a suspension bridge). 

  • A person (see usage notes). 

  • A man, fellow. 

rib

verb
  • To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way. 

  • To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in. 

  • To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land). 

  • To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs. 

noun
  • A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones. 

  • A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault 

  • A teasing joke. 

  • A stalk of celery. 

  • A single strand of hair. 

  • Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength. 

  • The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf. 

  • Watercress (Nasturtium officinale). 

  • A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something. 

  • A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth. 

  • Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull. 

  • Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum. 

  • Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale). 

  • Costmary (Tanacetum balsamita). 

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