kid

Oznaczający (Angielski)

Noun

1. A young goat.
2. Kidskin.
3. The meat of a young goat.
4. A young antelope.
5. (informal) A child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile.
6. (informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area.
7. (informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
8. Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
9. (colloquial) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
10. A deception; an act of kidding somebody.
11. A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.

Verb

1. (colloquial) To make a fool of (someone).
2. (colloquial) To dupe or deceive (someone).
3. (colloquial) To make a joke with (someone).
4. Of a goat: to give birth.
5. (colloquial) To joke.

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/kɪd/

Etymologia (Angielski)

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.
Sense of child since 1590s as cant, since 1840s in informal use.