kid

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.

   • She's a kid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends.
   • “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.
   • 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.
2. 2

   A young goat.

   • He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy.
   • 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, […]
   • 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.
3. 3

   A young antelope.

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   1. 4

      A deception

      A deception; an act of kidding somebody.

   2. 5

      A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.

      • peaceable, well-disposed chaps as ever eat duff (dough) out of a kid
   3. 6

      To dupe or deceive.

      • Are you kidding me?
      • I kid you not!
      • "They are all very suspicious about the wording. I am always thinking up new ways of kidding them."
   4. 7

      To mock or make a fool of (someone) in a playful way.

      • They were always kidding her for her stutter.
   5. 8

      To joke.

      • You must be kidding!
      • I'm only kidding!
      • No kidding!
   6. 9

      Of a goat

      Of a goat: to give birth.

      • That nanny over there with the white tail has kidded every year for the last five years.
      • "They can kid twice a year if things are right, and they often throw twins and triplets."
   7. 10

      A seed pod, usually of a leguminous plant.

   8. 11

      Synonym of faggot (“bundle of heath and furze”).

      • 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, […]
   9. 12

      Initialism of King's Indian Defence.

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