spide

/ ˈspaɪd /

noun

1. informal.
   a young working-class man who dresses in casual sports clothes

Word History and Origins

Origin of spide¹

C20: of unknown origin

Example Sentences

Enforst to seeke some covert nigh at hand, A shadie grove not farr away they spide, That promist ayde the tempest to withstand; Whose loftie trees, yelad with sommers pride, Did spred so broad, that heavens light did hide, Not perceable with power of any starr: And all within were pathes and alleies wide, With footing worne, and leading inward farr; Faire harbour that them seems; so in they entred ar.

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“Blue an’ gol’ spide?” queried Hop Lung.

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“Noee see spide so long dat,” answered the Chinese cook, shaking his head doubtfully.

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Spide he all the samee buttelfly,” 216 announced Hop Lung.

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Home hee sent for mee, pinniond and shackeld I was transported alongst the streete: where passing vnder Iulianaes the Marques of Mantuaes wiues window, that was a lustie Bona Roba one of the popes concubines, as she had her casement halfe open, she lookt out and spide me.

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