spide

British  

/ ˈspaɪd /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of spide

C20: of unknown origin

Example Sentences

What plague sore have ye spide, what taynt in honour, What ill howre in my life so cleere deserving That rancks in this below your fellowships?

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

And them beside 475 Forth ryding underneath the castell wall, A donghill of dead carkases he spide, The dreadfull spectacle of that sad house of Pride.

From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund

Good cause he had to hasten thence away; For on a day his wary Dwarfe had spide Where in a dongeon deepe huge numbers lay 405 Of caytive wretched thrals, that wayled night and day.

From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund

With that it bad me to the other side To cast mine eye, where other sights I spide.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund