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kid

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kid"

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kid

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Koshin.

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English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kɪd/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪd

Etymology 1

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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]

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kid (countable and uncountable, plural kids)

  1. (informal) A child (usually), teenager, or young adult.
    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 March 13 – June 19, Richard Marsh [pseudonym; Richard Bernard Heldmann], “What the Tidings Were”, in The Beetle (The Adelphi Library; 4), London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, […], published 1920, →OCLC, book IV (In Pursuit), page 269:
      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.
    • 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.
    • 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?’
    • 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.
    1. (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.
    2. (informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
      This is Bobby, he is our youngest kid.
    3. (in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
    4. (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.
  3. A young goat.
    He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy.
    • 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 249:
      I went indeed intending to kill a Kid out of my own Flock, and bring him 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.
    1. (uncountable) Kidskin.
      Synonym: kid leather
    2. (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. (dated) A deception; an act of kidding somebody.
  6. (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, “Reception from the Frenchman”, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 109:
      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.
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Verb

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

  1. (transitive, colloquial) To dupe or deceive.
    Are you kidding me?
    I kid you not!
    • 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."
    1. (transitive, colloquial) To deceive or dupe as a joke.
      Stop kidding me! It's not funny.
    2. (reflexive) To deceive oneself by having unrealistic expectations.
      You're kidding yourself if you think you can be a rockstar.
  2. (transitive, colloquial) To mock or make a fool of (someone) in a playful way.
    They were always kidding her for her stutter.
  3. (intransitive, colloquial) To joke.
    You're kidding!
    You must be kidding!
    I'm only kidding!
    No kidding!
  4. (intransitive) Of a goat: to give birth.
    That nanny over there with the white tail has kidded every year for the last five years.
    • 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."
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Etymology 2

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Compare Welsh cidysen.

Noun

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kid (plural kids)

  1. A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.
    • 1631, Gervase Markham, Countrey Contentments, 4th edition, page 99:
      Now, for as much as this Fowle is a great deſtruction vnto the young Spawne or Frie of Fiſh, it ſhall bee good for the preſeruation thereof, to ſtake down into the bottomes of your Ponds good long Kids or Faggots of bruſh-woods, […]

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  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “kid”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^ [Francis Grose] (1785) “Kid”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC: “Kid, a child.”

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Danish

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Etymology

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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.

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kid n (singular definite kiddet, plural indefinite kid)

  1. A young goat.

French

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Borrowed from English kid.

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kid m (plural kids)

  1. (colloquial) kid
    Synonyms: gamin, gosse, (regional) minot

Hungarian

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Etymology

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

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

Pronoun

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kid

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

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative kid —
accusative kidet —
dative kidnek —
instrumental kiddel —
causal-final kidért —
translative kiddé —
terminative kidig —
essive-formal kidként —
essive-modal — —
inessive kidben —
superessive kiden —
adessive kidnél —
illative kidbe —
sublative kidre —
allative kidhez —
elative kidből —
delative kidről —
ablative kidtől —
non-attributive
possessive – singular 		kidé —
non-attributive
possessive – plural 		kidéi —

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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

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

  1. the meat of a goatling

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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

  1. (pre-1917) alternative form of kje

Sikaritai

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kid

  1. banana

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kid

  1. Romanization of 𒆤 (kid)

Swedish

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Etymology

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

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kid n

  1. a young deer

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Declension of kid
nominative genitive
singular indefinite kid kids
definite kidet kidets
plural indefinite kid kids
definite kiden kidens

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Volapük

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kid (nominative plural kids)

  1. kiss

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Declension of kid
singular plural
nominative kid kids
genitive kida kidas
dative kide kides
accusative kidi kidis
vocative 1 o kid! o kids!
predicative 2 kidu kidus

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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