spier

American  

[spahy-er] / ˈspaɪ ər /

noun

1. a person who spies, watches, or discovers.

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Etymology

Origin of spier

Middle English word dating back to 1225–75; see origin at spy, -er ¹

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Example Sentences

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spier

His instantaneous reply: its cool spier, my brother’s in town too.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli

Gie my service back to my wife and bairns,   And a' gude fellows that spier for me.’

From Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys by Various

He's no lang deid niether, or ye could spier at himsel'.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

“For fools will prate o’ right and wrang, While knaves laugh in their sleeve; But wha blaws best the horn shall win, I’ll spier nae courtier’s leave.”

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

She turn'd her richt and round about, To spier her true love's name, 35 But naething heard she, nor naething saw, As a' the woods grew dim.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

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