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guise.

A customary way of speaking or acting; a fashion, a manner, a practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.)

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noun/ˈɡaɪz/

  1. A customary way of speaking or acting; a fashion, a manner, a practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.)

  2. An external appearance in manner or dress; an appropriate indication or expression; a garb; a shape.

  3. A misleading appearance; a cover, a cloak.

    Under the guise of patriotism
Where this word comes from

From Middle English guise, gise, gyse, from Old French guisse, guise, vise (“guise, manner, way”), from Old Frankish *wīsa (“manner, way, fashion”), from Proto-Germanic *wīsǭ (“manner, way”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, view, behold, perceive”). Cognate with Old High German wīsa (“way, manner”), Old English wīse (“way, manner”), Dutch wijze (“way, manner”). More at wise.

verb/ˈɡaɪz/

  1. To dress.

    archaic · transitive

  2. To act as a guiser; to go dressed up in a parade etc.

    archaic · intransitive
Where this word comes from

From Middle English guise, gise, gyse, from Old French guisse, guise, vise (“guise, manner, way”), from Old Frankish *wīsa (“manner, way, fashion”), from Proto-Germanic *wīsǭ (“manner, way”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, view, behold, perceive”). Cognate with Old High German wīsa (“way, manner”), Old English wīse (“way, manner”), Dutch wijze (“way, manner”). More at wise.

noun/ˈɡaɪz/

  1. Deliberate misspelling of guys.

    Internet · alt-of · deliberate · misspelling · plural · plural-only
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