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FAWKES
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• FAWKES (noun)
The noun FAWKES has 1 sense:
1. English conspirator who was executed for his role in a plot to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament (1570-1606)
Familiarity information: FAWKES used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
English conspirator who was executed for his role in a plot to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament (1570-1606)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Fawkes; Guy Fawkes
Instance hypernyms:
coconspirator; conspirator; machinator; plotter (a member of a conspiracy)
Context examples
He was close beside me, when I walked away from the house, slowly fitting his long skeleton fingers into the still longer fingers of a great Guy Fawkes pair of gloves.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Abbot, I think, gave me credit for being a sort of infantine Guy Fawkes.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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