kid1
/kɪd
/noun
1 informal A child or young person: she collected the kids from school...
- Near me was sitting a woman with two kids - a toddler girl on her lap and a boy of about three next to her.
- The two of us mothers were not sure if my boy kid and her girl kid would get along and go sledding while we skied, but we risked it.
- Grateful kids at Whitmore Infant School in Basildon have been packing into the seated area since the structure went up.
Synonyms
child, youngster, little one, young one, baby, toddler, infant, boy/girl, young person, minor, juvenile, adolescent, teenager, youth, stripling;
offspring, son/daughter;
Scottish bairn, wean;
West Indian pickney
informal kiddie, nipper, tot, tiny, kiddiewink, shaver, young 'un
British informal sprog
North American informal rug rat
Australian/New Zealand ankle-biter
derogatory brat, urchin
literary babe
1.1Used as an informal form of address: we’ll be seeing ya, kid!...
- That's called making the most of concurrent annoying situations, kids.
- Hold onto your hats, kids, it's going to be an exciting ride!
- There was the number of somebody in my office, Austin S. Don't dial the number, kids.
2A young goat.He ignored the oxen like they did not exist and treated the goat kids like they were young colts....
- The family's goat kids shared the dwelling so they wouldn't freeze to death in their first winter.
- The Tamil original is sprinkled with evocative and lovely terms like poongkuttigal for goat kids.
2.1 [mass noun] Leather made from a young goat’s skin: [as modifier]: white kid gloves...
- I pointed to a pair of wine-red kid leather Dolce & Gabbana pumps.
- In her studio she showed us rich, Italian kid leathers, Florentine papers, artisanal glues and brushes.
- The faces are made of silk or kid leather, molded and enhanced with embroidered or painted details.
verb (kids, kidding, kidded) [no object]
(Of a goat) give birth: milk fever usually occurs in heavy milkers shortly after kidding...
- We first vaccinated the kids on the 18th April 1995, but we did not know for two years, when the goats eventually kidded whether the vaccination had worked or not, and even then they may not succumb to the disease straight away.
- The goat will kid each year, often producing twins.
- We are awash with a dozen kids all wanting to be bottle fed 3 times a day, new goats to milk, goats still waiting to kid and everything bored stiff and fed up standing in their pens day after day.
Phrases
kids' stuff (kid stuff)
our kid
Origin
Middle English (in sense 2 of the noun): from Old Norse kith, of Germanic origin; related to German Kitze.
Young goats are traditionally a source of soft pliable leather for fine gloves. In the 19th century this gave us the expression handle with kid gloves to mean ‘to deal very tactfully and gently with’. Our familiar use of kid for a young person developed in the 19th century, but probably looks back to late 17th-century slang use to mean a baby or young child. The verb kidnap—its second syllable is a slang word, nap, meaning ‘to take or seize’—originally referred to the 17th-century practice of stealing children to provide servants or labourers for the new American plantations.
Rhymes
kid2
/kɪd/verb (kids, kidding, kidded) [with object] informal
1Deceive (someone) in a playful way; tease: you’re kidding me!...
- My dad used to kid her and tease her about it on election day.
- How I would kid him about all the air time and the praise he was getting.
- I'm around other people's fathers and Ayesha's father used to tease me and Anya, Anya especially, and we kidded him right back.
Synonyms
joke, tease, jest, chaff, be facetious;
pretend, play, fool about/around
informal pull someone's leg, wind up, have on, rib, josh
North American informal pull someone's chain, fun, shuck
1.1 [with object and clause] Fool (someone) into believing something: he likes to kid everyone he’s the big macho tough guy...
- Don't kid yourself into believing this means it doesn't go on.
- We can try to kid ourselves into believing that following Jesus isn't such a difficult thing.
- We are not fools trying to kid ourselves but we want him to lead as normal a life as possible for as long as he can.
Synonyms
delude, deceive, fool, trick, take in, hoodwink, hoax, beguile, dupe, gull, bamboozle
informal con, pull the wool over someone's eyes
literary cozen
1.2 [no object] (kid around) Behave in a silly way: we were just kidding around...
- At first I thought he was just kidding around, as did everyone else, but he was genuinely challenging the lecturers, at points raising his voice and even banging on the desk like a child that wasn't getting it's way.
- He laughs again to show he's not posturing, he's kidding around.
- He kids around, annoying Mike and amusing Frank.
Phrases
just kidding
no kidding
you must be (or have to be) kidding
Derivatives
kidder
/ noun ...- Two cross-talk comedians would find it hard to keep up with these first-class kidders.
- I learned a lesson that night: don't kid a kidder.
- ‘Always the kidder,’ said Benny, letting out another belly laugh.
kiddingly
- I always kiddingly tell people what I call the orange juice story.
- ‘That shows where we rate,’ Carr said, kiddingly.
- Calok smirked at her and said kiddingly, ‘What hole did you slither out of?’
Origin
Early 19th century: perhaps from kid1, expressing the notion ‘make a child or goat of’.
kid3
/kɪd/noun archaic
A small wooden tub, especially a sailor’s mess tub for grog or rations.
Origin
Mid 18th century: perhaps a variant of kit1.
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