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kid

1 [kid]

noun, verb, kid⋅ded, kid⋅ding, adjective

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–noun

1.	Informal. a child or young person.

2.	(used as a familiar form of address.)

3.	a young goat.

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

5.	a glove made from this leather.

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

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

–adjective

7.	made of kidskin.

8.	Informal. younger: his kid sister.

Origin:
1150–1200; ME kide < ON kith

Related forms:

kiddish, adjective

kid⋅dish⋅ness, noun

kidlike, adjective

kid

2 [kid]

verb, kid⋅ded, kid⋅ding. Informal.

–verb (used with object)

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

2.	to humbug or fool.

–verb (used without object)

3.	to speak or act deceptively in jest; jest.

Origin:
1805–15; perh. special use of kid ¹

Related forms:

kidder, noun

kid⋅ding⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. tease, josh, rib.

Kid

[kid]

–noun

Thomas. Kyd, Thomas.

Kyd

[kid]

–noun

Thomas, 1558–94, English dramatist.

Also, Kid.

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kid (kĭd)

1. A young goat.
2. The young of a similar animal, such as an antelope.
3. The flesh of a young goat.
4. Leather made from the skin of a young goat; kidskin.
5. An article made from this leather.
6. A child.
7. A young person.
1. The flesh of a young goat.
2. Leather made from the skin of a young goat; kidskin.
3. An article made from this leather.
4. A child.
5. A young person.
Informal
1. A child.
2. A young person.
Slang Pal. Used as a term of familiar address, especially for a young person: Hi, kid! What's up?

adj.

Made of kid.
Informal Younger than oneself: my kid brother.

v. kid·ded, kid·ding, kids

v. tr. Informal

To mock playfully; tease. See Synonyms at banter.
To deceive in fun; fool.

v. intr.

Informal To engage in teasing or good-humored fooling.
To bear young. Used of a goat or an antelope.

[Middle English kide, from Old Norse kidh.]
kid'der n., kid'ding·ly adv.

Kid (kĭd)

See Thomas Kyd.

Kyd or Kid (kĭd)

English dramatist who wrote The Spanish Tragedy (c. 1584), is thought to have contributed to Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Henry VI, and may have written a version of Hamlet.

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Kid

Kid\, n. [Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. ki?, Dan. & Sw. kid; akin to OHG. kizzi, G. kitz, kitzchen, kitzlein.]

1. (Zo["o]l.) A young goat.

The . . . leopard shall lie down with the kid. --Is. xi. 6.

2. A young child or infant; hence, a simple person, easily imposed on. [Slang] --Charles Reade.

3. A kind of leather made of the skin of the young goat, or of the skin of rats, etc.

4. pl. Gloves made of kid. [Colloq. & Low]

5. A small wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food. --Cooper.

Kid

Kid\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Kidded; p. pr. & vb. n. Kidding.] To bring forth a young goat.

Kid

Kid\, n. [Cf. W. cidysen.] A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright.

Kid

Kid\, p. p. of Kythe. [Obs.] --Gower. Chaucer.

Kid

Kid\, v. t. See Kiddy, v. t. [Slang]

Kid

Kid\, n. Among pugilists, thieves, etc., a youthful expert; -- chiefly used attributively; as, kid Jones. [Cant]

Language Translation for : kid

Spanish: niño, crío, chaval,

German: das Kind; kleinerer,

Japanese: 子供

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kid (n.)

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 (v.)

"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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Kid

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."

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kid

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

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