

kid
1 [kid]
noun, verb, kid⋅ded, kid⋅ding, adjective | 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. |
| 6. | (of a goat) to give birth to (young). |
| 7. | made of kidskin. |
| 8. | Informal. younger: his kid sister. |
1150–1200; ME kide < ON kith

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kid
2 [kid]
verb, kid⋅ded, kid⋅ding. Informal.| 1. | to talk or deal jokingly with; banter; jest with: She is always kidded about her accent. |
| 2. | to humbug or fool. |
| 3. | to speak or act deceptively in jest; jest. |
Related forms:
1. tease, josh, rib.
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kid (kĭd) n.
v. tr. Informal
[Middle English kide, from Old Norse kidh.] kid'der n., kid'ding·ly adv. |
Kid (kĭd) See Thomas Kyd. |
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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\, 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]Cite This Source
kid (n.)
kid (v.)
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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)].
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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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