guy vs he

guy

noun
  • A man, fellow. 

  • 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). 

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

  • To play in a comedic manner. 

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

  • To equip with a support cable. 

he

noun
  • A male. 

  • The name of the first letter of the Old South Arabian abjad. 

  • The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). 

  • The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he". 

  • The player who chases and attempts to catch the others in this game. 

pron
  • A genderless object regarded as masculine, such as certain stars or planets (e.g. Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter) or certain ships. 

  • A male person or animal already known or implied. 

  • they; he or she (a person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.) 

  • it; an animal whose gender is unknown. 

intj
  • An expression of laughter. 

det
  • Synonym of his 

How often have the words guy and he occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )