n. & v.
n. 1 colloq. a man; a fellow. 2 (usu. in pl.) US a person of either sex. 3 Brit. an effigy of Guy Fawkes in ragged clothing, burnt on a bonfire on 5 Nov. 4 Brit. a grotesquely dressed person.
v.tr. 1 ridicule. 2 exhibit in effigy.
[ Guy Fawkes, conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament in 1605 ]