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kiddo

noun
/ˈkɪdoʊ/US

Etymology

From kid + -o; see kid (“child”).

  1. derived from *gidʰ-✻
  2. derived from *gʰaydn-✻
  3. derived from *kidją✻
  4. derived from kið
  5. inherited from kide
  6. suffixed as kiddo — “kid + o”

Definitions

  1. A close friend

    A close friend; especially used as a form of address.

    • Okay, kiddo, I gotta run.

  2. A child.

    • The books say it's normal. Toddlers often stop napping around this age, and the average amount of sleep needed by a two-year-old is between nine and thirteen hours. My kiddo cuts logs for twelve hours at a stretch, so she's plenty rested.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for kiddo. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA