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Surprisingly – the word “guy” (young man, fellow) comes from the name of the famous British conspirator Guy (Guido) Fawkes. Rag dolls which depict him traditionaly burned at the celebration of the failure of Gunpowder Plot. These dolls/effigies after two hundred years after conspiracy became very unspecific, lack of detail, “just guy” – and the new word was born.