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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
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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)   
n.  

    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.

  3. Informal

    1. A child.

    2. A young person.

  4. Slang Pal. Used as a term of familiar address, especially for a young person: Hi, kid! What's up?

adj.  

  1. Made of kid.

  2. Informal Younger than oneself: my kid brother.

v.   kid·ded, kid·ding, kids

v.   tr. Informal

  1. To mock playfully; tease. See Synonyms at banter.

  2. To deceive in fun; fool.

v.   intr.

  1. Informal To engage in teasing or good-humored fooling.

  2. 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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

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."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

Kid
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)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Bible Dictionary

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."

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.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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