Definition of Spide

1. Noun. (context: Northern Irish English pejorative) a chav or smick. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spide

1. spy [v] - See also: spy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spide

spicous
spics
spicula
spiculae
spicular
spiculate
spiculation
spiculations
spicule
spicules
spiculiform
spiculigenous
spiculispongiae
spiculum
spide (current term)
spider
spider's web
spider's webs
spider-burst
spider-webby
spider angioma
spider angiomas
spider brake
spider cancer
spider cell
spider crab
spider fern
spider finger
spider flower

Literary usage of Spide

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Shakespeare's Ovid: Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses by Ovid, Arthur Golding, William Henry Denham Rouse (1904)
"By chaunce she spide this little Pond of water here bylow. And countrie Carles were gathering there these ..."

2. The manager of the B & A: A Novel by Vaughan Kester (1901)
"Was your father at the meeting, spide?" he asked, dropping his tone of ... He wanted to know what spide knew, but he didn't feel that he could afford to ..."

3. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"When he spide a king—King, by your leaue, quoth he. If hee spied a queene — Queene Richard art come ? quoth he ; and would kneele downe, and bid God blesse ..."

4. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1842)
"When he spide a king—King, by your leaue, quoth he. If hee spied a queene — Queene Richard art come ? quoth he ; and would kneele downe, and bid God blesse ..."

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