Fact of the day

One of the books I was reading lately was old enough to include an example of when "guy" was still an insult, specifically (in that context) meaning "fool". Love that little slice of word history.

I think it must've been the Mapp & Lucia series (1930s). But it could've been from the Irish RM books (1890s).

*I have been reading some much older than that - medieval romances; but they're all in translation from old French, so no vocabulary history is demonstrated.