Spal″peen (?), n. [Ir. spailpin, fr. spailp a beau, pride, self-conceit.] A scamp; an Irish term for a good-for-nothing fellow; — often used in good-humored contempt or ridicule.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.