kid

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Translingual

Symbol

kid

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Koshin.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Koshin terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɪd/
• (US, chiefly Southern and AAVE) IPA^(key): /kʰɪə̯d/
• Rhymes: -ɪd

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

kid (countable and uncountable, plural kids)

2. A young goat.
3. (uncountable) Kidskin.

   Synonym: kid leather
4. (uncountable) The meat of a young goat.

   Synonym: cabrito
5. A young antelope.
6. (informal) A child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:child
7. (informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area.

8. (informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.

9. (in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
10. (colloquial) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
    • 2007 June 3, Eben Moglen, speech, Freeing the Mind: Free Software and the end of proprietary culture,

      I remember as a kid lawyer working at IBM in the summer of 1983, when a large insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut, for the first time asked to buy 12000 IBM PCs in a single order.

11. (dated) A deception; an act of kidding somebody.
12. (nautical) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

kid (third-person singular simple present kids, present participle kidding, simple past and past participle kidded)

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

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• suede
• kid on

Etymology 2

Compare Welsh cidysen.

Noun

kid (plural kids)

1. A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.

References

Further reading

• kid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• IDK, idk

Danish

Etymology

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 Norwegian Bokmål kid, English kid, German Kitz and Kitze, Albanian kedh and kec.

Noun

kid n (singular definite kiddet, plural indefinite kid)

1. A young goat.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English kid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kid/

Noun

kid m (plural kids)

1. (colloquial) kid

   Synonyms: gamin, gosse, (regional) minot

Hungarian

Etymology

ki (“who”) +‎ -d (“your, of yours”, possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkid]
• Hyphenation: kid

Pronoun

kid

1. second-person singular single-possession possessive of ki

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Danish kid. Doublet of kje (“goatling”) from Norwegian kje.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /çidː/

Noun

kid n (definite singular kidet, indefinite plural kid, definite plural kida or kidene)

1. the meat of a goatling

References

• “kid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

kìd n (definite singular kìdet, indefinite plural kìd, definite plural kìdi)

1. (pre-1917) alternative form of kje

Sikaritai

Noun

kid

1. banana

Further reading

• Heljä & Duane Clouse, Kirikiri and the Western Lakes Plains Languages (1993)

Sumerian

Romanization

kid

1. Romanization of 𒆤 (kid)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish kiþ, from Old Norse kið, from Proto-Germanic *kidją‚ from Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ-.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːd

Noun

kid n

1. a young deer

Declension

Derived terms

• rådjurskid

Volapük

Noun

kid (nominative plural kids)

1. kiss

Declension