kid.
A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
Meaning & usage
A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
She's a kid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends.
A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult. A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area.
Only '90s kids will remember this toy.
He's been living in Los Angeles for years now, but he's a Florida kid.
A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult. One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
This is Bobby, he is our youngest kid.
A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult. Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult. An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
A young goat.
He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy.
A young goat. Kidskin.
A young goat. The meat of a young goat.
A young antelope.
A deception; an act of kidding somebody.
A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.
Where this word comes from
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 in informal use.
To dupe or deceive.
Are you kidding me?
I kid you not!
To dupe or deceive. To deceive or dupe as a joke.
Stop kidding me! It's not funny.
To dupe or deceive. To deceive oneself by having unrealistic expectations.
You're kidding yourself if you think you can be a rockstar.
To mock or make a fool of (someone) in a playful way.
They were always kidding her for her stutter.
To joke.
You must be kidding!
I'm only kidding!
Of a goat: to give birth.
That nanny over there with the white tail has kidded every year for the last five years.
Where this word comes from
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 in informal use.
A seed pod, usually of a leguminous plant.
Where this word comes from
Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Middle English *kidde, from Old English *cydde (“pouch, belly”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuddijā, derived from or related to Proto-Germanic *kuddô (“bag, sack, pod, shell, husk”).
Synonym of faggot (“bundle of heath and furze”).
Where this word comes from
Compare Welsh cidysen.
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