heydeguy

== English == === Etymology === Likely hay (“kind of circle-dance”) + French de (“of”) + a proper noun of unclear referent, Guy or Guise. === Noun === heydeguy (plural heydeguys or heydeguies) (historical) A kind of hay (country dance or round) popular during the English Renaissance. c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.: But ye are ſo full of vertibilite,And of frenetyke folabilite,And of melancoly mutabilite,That ye would coarte and enforce meNothing to write, but hay the gy of thre,And I to ſuffre you lewdly to lyOf me with your language full of vilany!