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Translingual

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Etymology

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Abbreviation ofEnglishKoshin withd as a placeholder.

Symbol

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kid

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

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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A goat kid.

FromMiddle Englishkide, fromOld Norsekið(“young goat”), fromProto-Germanic*kidją,*kittīną(“goatling, kid”), perhaps fromProto-Indo-European*gʰaydn-,*ǵʰaydn-(“goat”) orProto-Indo-European*gidʰ-(“kid, goatling, little goat”). CompareSwedish andDanishkid,GermanKitz andKitze,Albaniankedh andkec. The sense ofchild has been in use since the 1590s asslang, and since the 1840s in informal use.[1][2]

Noun

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kid (countable anduncountable,pluralkids)

  1. (informal) Achild,adolescent, or(loosely) ayoung adult.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:child
    She's akid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends.
    • 1838, Boz [pseudonym;Charles Dickens], “Wherein Oliver Is Delivered over to Mr. William Sikes”, inOliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume II, London:Richard Bentley, […],→OCLC,page12:
      “So you’ve got thekid,” 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”, inThe Beetle (The Adelphi Library; 4), London:T[homas] Fisher Unwin, […], published1920,→OCLC, book IV (In Pursuit),page269:
      I said, “I’ll send the first sane soul I meet to keep you company.” As luck would have it, I never met one,—onlykids, 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 akid like you a woman," said Digory loftily.
    • 1963,Margery Allingham, “The Beanspiller”, inThe China Governess: A Mystery, London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC,page186:
      ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You’re not dull enough![…] What about thekid’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:
      Ourkids are why all of you are in this room today. Ourkids are why you wake up wondering how you'll make a difference and go to bed thinking about tomorrow's lesson plan. Ourkids 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”, inScorpion, performed byDrake:
      She not my lover like "Billie Jean", but thekid is mine
    • 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, inModern Railways, page44:
      Network Rail is now the biggestkid 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 whosechildhood took place in a particular time period or area.
      Only '90skids will remember this toy.
      He's been living in Los Angeles for years now, but he's a Floridakid.
    2. (informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
      This is Bobby, he is our youngestkid.
    3. (in the vocative)Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
    4. (colloquial) Aninexperienced person or one in ajunior position.
      • 2007 June 3,Eben Moglen, speech,Freeing the Mind: Free Software and the end of proprietary culture,
        I remember as akid 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 younggoat.
    He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goatkid like a puppy.
    • 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe],The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […],→OCLC,page249:
      I went indeed intending to kill aKid 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 youngKids ſitting by her,[…]
    • 1769,Firishta, translated byAlexander 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 ofkids and bounding roes.
    1. (uncountable)Kidskin.
      Synonym:kid leather
    2. (uncountable) The meat of a young goat.
      Synonyms:cabrito,capretto
      • 1819 December 20 (indicated as1820),Walter Scott, chapter VII, inIvanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […],→OCLC,pages85–86:
        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 seethedkid, 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 youngantelope.
  5. (dated) Adeception; an act of kidding somebody.
  6. (nautical) A small woodenmesstub in whichsailors 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 akid
    • 1847 March 30,Herman Melville, “Reception from the Frenchman”, inOmoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London:John Murray, […],→OCLC,page109:
      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.
Derived terms
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Terms derived fromkid (noun)
Translations
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child (colloq.)
young person (colloq.)
young goat
kidskin—seekidskin
young antelope

Verb

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kid (third-person singular simple presentkids,present participlekidding,simple past and past participlekidded)

  1. (transitive, colloquial, usually present participle) Todupe ordeceive.
    Are youkidding me?
    Ikid you not!
    • 1965, James Holledge,What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page76:
      "They are all very suspicious about the wording. I am always thinking up new ways ofkidding them."
    1. (transitive, colloquial, usually present participle) To deceive or dupe as a joke.
      Stopkidding me! It's not funny.
    2. (reflexive, usually present participle) To deceive oneself by having unrealistic expectations.
      You'rekidding yourself if you think you can be a rockstar.
  2. (transitive, colloquial) To mock or make a fool of (someone) in aplayful way.
    They were alwayskidding her for her stutter.
  3. (intransitive, colloquial, usually present participle) Tojoke.
    You'rekidding!
    You must bekidding!
    I'm onlykidding!
    Nokidding!
  4. (intransitive) Of a goat: togive birth.
    That nanny over there with the white tail haskidded every year for the last five years.
    • 2008,Monte Dwyer,Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page200:
      "They cankid twice a year if things are right, and they often throw twins and triplets."
Usage notes
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Generally rare outside of set phrases.

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Translations
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deceive (as a joke)
mock playfully
to joke

See also

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Etymology 2

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CompareWelshcidysen.

Noun

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kid (pluralkids)

  1. Synonym offaggot(“bundle of heath and furze”).
    • 1631,Gervase Markham,Countrey Contentments, 4th edition,page99:
      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 longKids or Faggots of bruſh-woods,[…]

References

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  1. ^Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “kid”, inOnline Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^[Francis Grose] (1785), “Kid”, inA Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, London: […] S. Hooper, […],→OCLC: “Kid, a child.”

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Danish

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Etymology

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FromOld Norsekið(“young goat”), fromProto-Germanic*kidją,*kittīną(“goatling, kid”), perhaps fromProto-Indo-European*gʰaydn-,*ǵʰaydn-(“goat”) orProto-Indo-European*gidʰ-(“kid, goatling, little goat”). CompareSwedish andNorwegian Bokmålkid,Englishkid,GermanKitz andKitze,Albaniankedh andkec.

Noun

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kid n (singular definitekiddet,plural indefinitekid)

  1. A younggoat.

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishkid.

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Noun

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kid m (pluralkids)

  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)

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

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kid

  1. second-personsingularsingle-possessionpossessive ofki

Declension

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Inflection (stem in-e-, front unrounded harmony)
singularplural
nominativekid—
accusativekidet—
dativekidnek—
instrumentalkiddel—
causal-finalkidért—
translativekiddé—
terminativekidig—
essive-formalkidként—
essive-modal——
inessivekidben—
superessivekiden—
adessivekidnél—
illativekidbe—
sublativekidre—
allativekidhez—
elativekidből—
delativekidről—
ablativekidtől—
non-attributive
possessive – singular		kidé—
non-attributive
possessive – plural		kidéi—

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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FromDanishkid.Doublet ofkje(“goatling”) fromNorwegiankje.

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Noun

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kid n (definite singularkidet,indefinite pluralkid,definite pluralkidaorkidene)

  1. themeat of agoatling

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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kìd n (definite singularkìdet,indefinite pluralkìd,definite pluralkìdi)

  1. (pre-1917)alternative form ofkje

Sikaritai

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Noun

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kid

  1. banana

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Sumerian

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Romanization

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kid

  1. romanization of𒆤(kid)

Swedish

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Etymology

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FromOld Swedishkiþ, fromOld Norsekið, fromProto-Germanic*kidją‚ fromProto-Indo-European*gidʰ-

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kid n

  1. fawn(a young deer)

Declension

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Declension ofkid
nominativegenitive
singularindefinitekidkids
definitekidetkidets
pluralindefinitekidkids
definitekidenkidens

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Volapük

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Noun

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kid (genitivekida,pluralkids)

  1. kiss

Declension

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Declension ofkid
SingularPlural
Nominativekidkids
Genitivekidakidas
Dativekidekides
Accusativekidikidis
Predicative1kidukidus
Vocativeokidokids
  1. Introduced inVolapük Nulik.
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