kid
//ˈkɪd//
informalForms
- Plural
- kids
- present (v1)
- kid
- past (v2)
- kidded
- past participle (v3)
- kidded
- present participle
- kidding
- 3rd person singular
- kids
Definitions
1.A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.(informal)
- Only '90s kids will remember this toy.
- This is Bobby, he is our youngest kid.
- She's a kid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends.
2.A young goat.
- He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy.
- I have three pairs of kid gloves. I've had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never real kid gloves with five fingers.
3.A young antelope.
- I used to play here when I was a kid.
- He used to collect beetles when he was a kid.
- Give the kid a break.
4.A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.
- I used to play here when I was a kid.
- He used to collect beetles when he was a kid.
- Give the kid a break.
1.To dupe or deceive.(colloquial)
- Stop kidding me! It's not funny.
- You're kidding yourself if you think you can be a rockstar.
- "They are all very suspicious about the wording. I am always thinking up new ways of kidding them."
2.To mock or make a fool of (someone) in a playful way.(colloquial)
- They were always kidding her for her stutter.
3.To joke.(colloquial)
- "Blind!" exclaimed the old fellow, sitting up in startled wonderment. "You mean it, sir? You walk all right and you look at me as if you saw me. You're kidding surely."
4.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."
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #275
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Very common
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
Etymology
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”).