To make fun of.
1872. Happy the Roman street-boy who ate his peanuts and guyed the gladiators from the dizzy gallery.—Mark Twain, ‘The Innocents Abroad,’ ch. xxvi. (N.E.D.)
1888. Though this [the accidental shooting of the dog] was a loss keenly felt, there was no resisting the chance to guy the hunter.—Mrs. Custer, ‘Tenting on the Plains,’ pp. 163–4.
1888. We watched them curiously day by day, and wanted to see if the residents had told us stories about their [the ants in Texas] stripping trees of foliage just to guy us.—Id., p. 193.
1888. The poor officer who had been so guyed did not gratify his tormentors by getting angry, but fell to planning new mischief for the next arrival.—Id., p. 378.
1890. I was rather incredulous of their stories when they were told to me, as I had been so often “guyed.”—Mrs. Custer, ‘Following the Guidon,’ p. 117 (N.Y.).
1904. Our Republican friends still received us socially, and with warmth, but guyed us, some of them unmercifully.—J. H. Claiborne, ‘Seventy-Five Years in Old Virginia,’ p. 175.
