kid

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, informal, uncountable) A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
2. (countable, informal, uncountable) A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
3. (countable, informal, uncountable) A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
4. (countable, informal, uncountable) A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
5. (colloquial, countable, informal, uncountable) A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
6. (countable, uncountable) A young goat.
7. (uncountable) A young goat.
8. (uncountable) A young goat.
9. (countable, uncountable) A young antelope.
10. (countable, dated, uncountable) A deception; an act of kidding somebody.
11. (countable, uncountable) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.

Verb

1. (colloquial, transitive) To dupe or deceive.
2. (colloquial, transitive) To dupe or deceive.
3. (colloquial, reflexive, transitive) To dupe or deceive.
4. (colloquial, transitive) To mock or make a fool of (someone) in a playful way.
5. (colloquial, intransitive) To joke.
6. (intransitive) Of a goat: to give birth.

Synonyms

child

🧒

tease

baby

👶

joke

🤣

infant

young goat

youngster

boy

👦

children

banter

josh

lamb

🐑

jolly

son

make fun of

chaff

offspring

girl

👧

bairn

tot

jest

kidskin

goatling

tiddler

ridicule

small fry

kiddo

be kidding

fool

brat

jive

nestling

daughter

converse

tyke

nipper

minor

young

tike

cheat

fry

fool around

lad

babe

taunt

toddler

kiddy

razz

kiddie

pull one’s leg

Translations

Kind

🧒

niño

🧒

enfant

🧒

chevreau

🧒

bambino

🧒

criança

🧒

capretto

παιδί

cabrito

🧒

gosse

🧒

çocuk

🧒

menino

👦

chico

gamin

geitje

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɪd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: kide

Cognate with Swedish: -

Cognate with Danish: kid

Cognate with German: Kitz

Cognate with Albanian: kedh

Cognate with Welsh: cidysen

In summary

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. The sense of child has been in use since the 1590s as slang, and since the 1840s in informal use.

Sentences

A kid is standing on a swing at a playground .