kid

• IPA^(key): /kɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪd

A goat kid.

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.

Sense of child since 1590s as cant, since 1840s in informal use.[1][2]

kid (plural kids)

1. A young goat.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe: Friday's Education:

     I went, indeed, intending to kill a kid out of my own flock; and bring it home and dress it; but as I was going I saw a she-goat lying down in the shade, and two young kids sitting by her.

   • 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:

     The lofty mountains roſe faint to the ſight and loſt their foreheads in the diſtant ſkies: the little hills, cloathed in darker green and ſkirted with embroidered vales, diſcovered the ſecret haunts of kids and bounding roes.

   He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy.

2. Kidskin.

   Synonym: kid leather

   • 1912, Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs: Letter 3:

     I have three pairs of kid gloves. I've had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never real kid gloves with five fingers.

3. (uncountable) The meat of a young goat.

   Synonym: cabrito

   • 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 85–86:

     So saying, he gathered together, and brought to a flame, the decaying brands which lay scattered on the ample hearth; took from the larger board a mess of pottage and seethed kid, placed it upon the small table at which he had himself supped, and, without waiting the Jew's thanks, went to the other side of the hall; […].

4. A young antelope.
5. (informal) A child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:child

   She's a kid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends.

   • 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Wherein Oliver Is Delivered over to Mr. William Sikes”, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 12:

     “So you've got the kid,” said Sikes, when they had all reached the room: closing the door as he spoke.¶ “Yes, here he is,” replied Nancy.¶ “Did he come quiet?” inquired Sikes.¶ “Like a lamb,” rejoined Nancy.

   • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

     I said, “I’ll send the first sane soul I meet to keep you company.” As luck would have it, I never met one, — only kids, and a baker, who wouldn’t leave his cart, or take it with him either.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “The Beanspiller”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 186:

     ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’

   • 1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC:

     "I should never dream of calling a kid like you a woman," said Digory loftily.

   • 2007 July 5, Barack Obama, Remarks of Senator Barack Obama to the National Education Association Annual Meeting:

     Our kids are why all of you are in this room today. Our kids are why you wake up wondering how you'll make a difference and go to bed thinking about tomorrow's lesson plan. Our kids are why you walk into that classroom every day even when you're not getting the support, or the pay, or the respect that you deserve - because you believe that every child should have a chance to succeed; that every child can be taught.

   • 2018, “March 14”, in Scorpion, performed by Drake:

     She not my lover like "Billie Jean", but the kid is mine

   • 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 44:

     Network Rail is now the biggest kid in the playground, so if it doesn't want to play it doesn't have to, and the trees still fall down every time someone gives a low pressure system a name.

6. (informal) 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.

7. (informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.

   He was their youngest kid.

8. (in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.

   No, kid, you didn't do anything wrong; they did!

   • 1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casablanca, spoken by Rick (Humphrey Bogart):

     Here's looking at you, kid.

9. (colloquial) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
   • 2007 June 3, Eben Moglen, speech, Freeing the Mind: Free Software and the end of proprietary culture,

     I remember as a kid lawyer working at IBM in the summer of 1983, when a large insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut, for the first time asked to buy 12000 IBM PCs in a single order.

10. (dated) A deception; an act of kidding somebody.
11. (nautical) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.
    • 1830, James Fenimore Cooper, The Water-witch, Or, The Skimmer of the Seas:

      peaceable, well-disposed chaps as ever eat duff (dough) out of a kid

    • 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:

      We fasted till night, when one of the boys came along with a couple of "kids" containing a thin, saffron-coloured fluid, with oily particles floating on top. The young wag told us this was soup: it turned out to be nothing more than oleaginous warm water.

kid (third-person singular simple present kids, present participle kidding, simple past and past participle kidded)

1. (transitive, colloquial) To make a fool of (someone).
2. (transitive, colloquial) To dupe or deceive (someone).
   • 1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 76:

     "They are all very suspicious about the wording. I am always thinking up new ways of kidding them."

3. (transitive, colloquial) To make a joke with (someone).
4. (intransitive) Of a goat, to give birth.
   • 2008, Monte Dwyer, Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 200:

     "They can kid twice a year if things are right, and they often throw twins and triplets."

5. (intransitive, colloquial) To joke.

   You're kidding!

   Only kidding

• suede
• kid on

Compare Welsh cidysen.

kid (plural kids)

1. A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.
   • 1611, Gervase Markham, Countrey Contentments:

     Shake down into the bottom of your Ponds good long Kids or Faggots of brush-wood.

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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 Norwegian Bokmål kid, English kid, German Kitz and Kitze, Albanian kedh and kec.

kid n (singular definite kiddet, plural indefinite kid)

1. A young goat.

Borrowed from English kid.

• IPA^(key): /kid/

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kid m (plural kids)

1. (colloquial) kid

   Synonyms: gamin, gosse, (regional) minot

ki (“who”) +‎ -d (“your, of yours”, possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈkid]
• Hyphenation: kid

kid

1. second-person singular single-possession possessive of ki

From Danish kid. Doublet of kje (“goatling”) from Norwegian kje.

• IPA^(key): /çidː/

kid n (definite singular kidet, indefinite plural kid, definite plural kida or kidene)

1. the meat of a goatling

• “kid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

kìd n (definite singular kìdet, indefinite plural kìd, definite plural kìdi)

1. (pre-1917) alternative form of kje

kid

1. banana

• Heljä & Duane Clouse, Kirikiri and the Western Lakes Plains Languages (1993)

kid

1. Romanization of 𒆤 (kid)

From Old Swedish kiþ, from Old Norse kið, from Proto-Germanic *kidją‚ from Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ-.

• Rhymes: -iːd

kid n

1. a young deer

• rådjurskid

kid (nominative plural kids)

1. kiss