kid

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noun

Informal. a child or young person.

(used as a familiar form of address.)

a young goat.

leather made from the skin of a kid or goat, used in making shoes and gloves.

a glove made from this leather.

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verb (used without object), verb (used with object)

(of a goat) to give birth to (young).

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a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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adjective

made of kidskin.

Informal. younger: his kid sister.

Origin:
1150–1200; Middle English kide < Old Norse kith

Related forms

kid·dish, adjective

kid·dish·ness, noun

kid·like, adjective

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verb (used with object)

to talk or deal jokingly with; banter; jest with: She is always kidded about her accent.

to humbug or fool.

verb (used without object)

to speak or act deceptively in jest; jest.

Origin:
1805–15; perhaps special use of kid¹

Related forms

kid·der, noun

kid·ding·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. tease, josh, rib.

noun

Thomas, Kyd, Thomas.

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World English Dictionary

kid¹ (kɪd)

—n
1.	the young of a goat or of a related animal, such as an antelope
2.	soft smooth leather made from the hide of a kid
3.	informal
	a. a young person; child
	b. (modifier) younger or being still a child: kid brother; kid sister
4.	dialect (Liverpool) our kid my younger brother or sister

—vb , kids, kidding, kidded
5.	(of a goat) to give birth to (young)

[C12: of Scandinavian origin; compare Old Norse kith, Shetland Islands kidi lamb]

'kiddishness¹

—n

'kidlike¹

—*adj*

kid² (kɪd)

—vb (sometimes foll by on or along) , kids, kidding, kidded
1.	(tr) to tease or deceive for fun
2.	(intr) to behave or speak deceptively for fun
3.	(tr) to delude or fool (oneself) into believing (something): don't kid yourself that no-one else knows

[C19: probably from kid¹]

'kidder²

—n

'kiddingly²

—*adv*

kid³ (kɪd)

—n
	a small wooden tub

[C18: probably variant of kit¹ (in the sense: barrel)]

Kid (kɪd)

—n
	a variant spelling of (Thomas) Kyd

Kyd or Kid (kɪd)

—n
	Thomas. 1558--94, English dramatist, noted for his revenge play The Spanish Tragedy (1586)

Kid or Kid

—n

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Word Origin & History

kid

c.1200, "the young of a goat," from O.N. kið "young goat," from P.Gmc. *kiðjom (cf. Ger. kitz). Extended meaning of "child" first recorded as slang 1599, established in informal usage by 1840s. Kiddo first recorded 1896. Applied to skillful young thieves and pugilists since at least 1812. Kid

stuff "something easy" is from 1923. Kid glove "a glove made of kidskin leather" is from 1687; sense of "characterized by wearing kid gloves," therefore "dainty, delicate" is from 1856.

kid

"tease playfully" (1839), earlier, in thieves' cant, "to coax, wheedle, hoax" (1811), from kid (n.), via notion of "treat as a child, make a kid of."

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FOLDOC

Computing Dictionary

Kid definition

Kernel language for Id. A refinement of P-TAC, used as an intermediate language for Id. Lambda-calculus with first-class let-blocks and I-structures.
["A Syntactic Approach to Program Transformations", Z. Ariola et al, SIGPLAN Notices 26(9):116-129 (Sept 1991)].
(1996-07-22)

Easton

Bible Dictionary

Kid definition

the young of the goat. It was much used for food (Gen. 27:9; 38:17; Judg. 6:19; 14:6). The Mosaic law forbade to dress a kid in the milk of its dam, a law which is thrice repeated (Ex. 23:19; 34:26; Deut. 14:21). Among the various reasons assigned for this law, that appears to be the most satisfactory which regards it as "a protest against cruelty and outraging the order of nature." A kid cooked in its mother's milk is "a gross, unwholesome dish, and calculated to kindle animal and ferocious passions, and on this account Moses may have forbidden it. Besides, it is even yet associated with immoderate feasting; and originally, I suspect," says Dr. Thomson (Land and the Book), "was connected with idolatrous sacrifices."

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Idioms & Phrases

kid

In addition to the idioms beginning with kid, also see handle with (kid) gloves. Also see kidding.