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

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

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)

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