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Kid
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- 1 Initialism of King's Indian Defence. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 1 A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult. countable, informal, uncountable
"She's a kid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends."
- 2 Synonym of faggot (“bundle of heath and furze”).
"Now, for as much as this Fowle is a great deſtruction vnto the young Spawne or Frie of Fiſh, it ſhall bee good for the preſeruation thereof, to ſtake down into the bottomes of your Ponds good long Kids or Faggots of bruſh-woods, […]"
- 3 young goat wordnet
- 4 A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.; A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area. countable, informal, uncountable
"Only '90s kids will remember this toy."
- 5 a young person of either sex wordnet
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- 6 A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.; One's son or daughter, regardless of age. countable, informal, uncountable
"This is Bobby, he is our youngest kid."
- 7 a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age wordnet
- 8 A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.; Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult. countable, informal, uncountable
"Here's looking at you, kid."
- 9 soft smooth leather from the hide of a young goat wordnet
- 10 A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.; An inexperienced person or one in a junior position. colloquial, countable, informal, uncountable
"2007 June 3, Eben Moglen, speech, Freeing the Mind: Free Software and the end of proprietary culture, I remember as a kid lawyer working at IBM in the summer of 1983, when a large insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut, for the first time asked to buy 12000 IBM PCs in a single order."
- 11 A young goat. countable, uncountable
"He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy."
- 12 A young goat.; Kidskin. uncountable
"I have three pairs of kid gloves. I've had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never real kid gloves with five fingers."
- 13 A young goat.; The meat of a young goat. uncountable
"So saying, he gathered together, and brought to a flame, the decaying brands which lay scattered on the ample hearth; took from the larger board a mess of pottage and seethed kid, placed it upon the small table at which he had himself supped, and without waiting the Jew's thanks, went to the other side of the hall;—[…]."
- 14 A young antelope. countable, uncountable
- 15 A deception; an act of kidding somebody. countable, dated, uncountable
- 16 A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food. countable, uncountable
"peaceable, well-disposed chaps as ever eat duff (dough) out of a kid"
- 1 To dupe or deceive. colloquial, participle, present, transitive, usually
"Are you kidding me?"
- 2 tell false information to for fun wordnet
- 3 To dupe or deceive.; To deceive or dupe as a joke. colloquial, participle, present, transitive, usually
"Stop kidding me! It's not funny."
- 4 be silly or tease one another wordnet
- 5 To dupe or deceive.; To deceive oneself by having unrealistic expectations. colloquial, participle, present, reflexive, transitive, usually
"You're kidding yourself if you think you can be a rockstar."
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- 6 To mock or make a fool of (someone) in a playful way. colloquial, transitive
"They were always kidding her for her stutter."
- 7 To joke. colloquial, intransitive, participle, present, usually
"You're kidding!"
- 8 Of a goat: to give birth. intransitive
"That nanny over there with the white tail has kidded every year for the last five years."
Etymology
From Middle English kide, from Old Norse kið (“young goat”), from Proto-Germanic *kidją, *kittīną (“goatling, kid”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaydn-, *ǵʰaydn- (“goat”) or Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ- (“kid, goatling, little goat”). Compare Swedish and Danish kid, German Kitz and Kitze, Albanian kedh and kec. The sense of child has been in use since the 1590s as slang, and since the 1840s in informal use.
From Middle English kide, from Old Norse kið (“young goat”), from Proto-Germanic *kidją, *kittīną (“goatling, kid”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaydn-, *ǵʰaydn- (“goat”) or Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ- (“kid, goatling, little goat”). Compare Swedish and Danish kid, German Kitz and Kitze, Albanian kedh and kec. The sense of child has been in use since the 1590s as slang, and since the 1840s in informal use.
Compare Welsh cidysen.
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