different between guise vs guiser

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?z/
• Rhymes: -a?z
• Homophone: guys

Etymology 1

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

Noun

guise (plural guises)

1. Customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.)
   • 1924, Aristotle. Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Aristotle. Metaphysics. Book 1, Part 5.

     dialecticians and sophists assume the same guise as the philosopher

2. External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.
3. Misleading appearance; cover, cloak.

   Under the guise of patriotism

   • 2013, Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' (in The Guardian, 13 September 2013)[1]

     Ought we be concerned that our rights to protest are being continually eroded under the guise of enhancing our safety?

Synonyms

• (customary way of acting): See Thesaurus:conduct
• (external appearance): See Thesaurus:guise

Related terms

• disguise

Translations

Verb

guise (third-person singular simple present guises, present participle guising, simple past and past participle guised)

1. (archaic, transitive) To dress.
2. (archaic, intransitive) To act as a guiser; to go dressed up in a parade etc.

Etymology 2

Noun

guise pl (plural only)

1. (Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of guys.

   Sup guise? — What's up, guys?

Anagrams

• Segui, egusi

French

Etymology

From Middle French guise, from Old French guisse, guise, vise (“guise, manner, way”), from Old Frankish *w?sa (“manner, way, fashion”), from Proto-Germanic *w?s? (“manner, way”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, view, behold, perceive”). Cognate with Old High German w?sa (“way, manner”), Old English w?se (“wise, way, fashion, custom, habit, manner”). More at wise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?iz/

Noun

guise f (plural guises)

1. way

   le faire à ma guise — do it my way

   Je l'ai laissé chanter à sa guise. — I let him sing his way.

   en guise de — by way of, as

Derived terms

• en guise de

Further reading

• “guise” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

guise f

1. plural of guisa

Anagrams

• segui, seguì

Old French

Noun

guise f (oblique plural guises, nominative singular guise, nominative plural guises)

1. way; manner

Descendants

• English: guise
• French: guise

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (guise, supplement)

Spanish

Verb

guise

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of guisar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of guisar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of guisar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of guisar.

English

Alternative forms

• guizer
• guyser

Etymology

guise +? -er

Noun

guiser (plural guisers)

1. A person in disguise, as for a parade or festival.

Synonyms

• mummer

Anagrams

• regius