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kid

Pronunciation: /ˈkɪd/

The English word “kid” has 19 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
  2. A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area.
  3. One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
  4. Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
  5. An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
  6. A young goat.
  7. Kidskin.
  8. The meat of a young goat.
  9. A young antelope.
  10. A deception; an act of kidding somebody.
  11. A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.
  12. A seed pod, usually of a leguminous plant.
  13. Synonym of faggot (“bundle of heath and furze”).

verb

  1. To dupe or deceive.
  2. To deceive or dupe as a joke.
  3. To deceive oneself by having unrealistic expectations.
  4. To mock or make a fool of (someone) in a playful way.
  5. To joke.
  6. Of a goat: to give birth.

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…

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