kiddier
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
kiddier
- comparative form of kiddy: more kiddy
Etymology 2 edit
Compare Old Swedish kyta (“to truck”).
Noun edit
kiddier (plural kiddiers)
- (obsolete) A huckster; a cadger.[1]
- 1562-1563, Acts of Queen Elizabeth:
- Every person […] not […] being in Service wth any Kyddyer or Carryor of any Corne Grayne or Meale.
- (obsolete, UK, slang) A pork butcher.[2]
References edit
- ^ “kiddier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary