kid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: kids
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”). 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.
Senses: examples: text: She's a kid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends.
text: “So you’ve got the kid,” said Sikes, when they had all reached the room: closing the door as he spoke. ¶ “Yes, here he is,” replied Nancy. ¶ “Did he come quiet?” inquired Sikes. ¶ “Like a lamb,” rejoined Nancy.
ref: 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Wherein Oliver Is Delivered over to Mr. William Sikes”, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 12:
text: I said, “I’ll send the first sane soul I meet to keep you company.” As luck would have it, I never met one,—only kids, and a baker, who wouldn’t leave his cart, or take it with him either.
ref: 1897 March 13 – June 19, Richard Marsh [pseudonym; Richard Bernard Heldmann], “What the Tidings Were”, in The Beetle (The Adelphi Library; 4), London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, […], published 1920, →OCLC, book IV (In Pursuit), page 269:
text: "I should never dream of calling a kid like you a woman," said Digory loftily.
ref: 1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC:
text: ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You’re not dull enough! […] What about the kid’s clothes? I don’t suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn’t you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “The Beanspiller”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 186:
text: Our kids are why all of you are in this room today. Our kids are why you wake up wondering how you'll make a difference and go to bed thinking about tomorrow's lesson plan. Our kids are why you walk into that classroom every day even when you're not getting the support, or the pay, or the respect that you deserve - because you believe that every child should have a chance to succeed; that every child can be taught.
ref: 2007 July 5, Barack Obama, Remarks of Senator Barack Obama to the National Education Association Annual Meeting:
text: She not my lover like "Billie Jean", but the kid is mine
ref: 2018, “March 14”, in Scorpion, performed by Drake:
text: Network Rail is now the biggest kid in the playground, so if it doesn't want to play it doesn't have to, and the trees still fall down every time someone gives a low pressure system a name.
ref: 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 44:
synonyms: word: bairn
word: brat
word: child
word: chit
word: crumb cruncher
word: crumb crusher
word: crumb grinder
word: crumb snatcher
word: fry
word: juvenile
word: kid
word: kiddie
word: little one
word: minor
word: mini-me
word: moppet
word: munchkin
word: nipper
word: slip
word: small fry
word: sprog
word: sprout
word: tart
word: tot
word: tyke
word: youngling
word: youngster
word: young'un
word: youth
word: crib lizard
word: crotch critter
word: crotch dropping
word: crotch fruit
word: crotch goblin
word: crotch monkey
word: crotchling
word: cum cheese
word: cum pet
word: cunt dropping
word: fucklet
word: fuck trophy
word: hump dumpling
word: pet sperm
word: semen demon
word: shitling
word: sperm blossom
word: sperm buttercup
word: sperm bubbles
word: bitchling
word: terence
glosses: A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
examples: text: Only '90s kids will remember this toy.
text: He's been living in Los Angeles for years now, but he's a Florida kid.
synonyms: word: bairn
word: brat
word: child
word: chit
word: crumb cruncher
word: crumb crusher
word: crumb grinder
word: crumb snatcher
word: fry
word: juvenile
word: kid
word: kiddie
word: little one
word: minor
word: mini-me
word: moppet
word: munchkin
word: nipper
word: slip
word: small fry
word: sprog
word: sprout
word: tart
word: tot
word: tyke
word: youngling
word: youngster
word: young'un
word: youth
word: crib lizard
word: crotch critter
word: crotch dropping
word: crotch fruit
word: crotch goblin
word: crotch monkey
word: crotchling
word: cum cheese
word: cum pet
word: cunt dropping
word: fucklet
word: fuck trophy
word: hump dumpling
word: pet sperm
word: semen demon
word: shitling
word: sperm blossom
word: sperm buttercup
word: sperm bubbles
word: bitchling
word: terence
glosses: A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area.
examples: text: This is Bobby, he is our youngest kid.
synonyms: word: bairn
word: brat
word: child
word: chit
word: crumb cruncher
word: crumb crusher
word: crumb grinder
word: crumb snatcher
word: fry
word: juvenile
word: kid
word: kiddie
word: little one
word: minor
word: mini-me
word: moppet
word: munchkin
word: nipper
word: slip
word: small fry
word: sprog
word: sprout
word: tart
word: tot
word: tyke
word: youngling
word: youngster
word: young'un
word: youth
word: crib lizard
word: crotch critter
word: crotch dropping
word: crotch fruit
word: crotch goblin
word: crotch monkey
word: crotchling
word: cum cheese
word: cum pet
word: cunt dropping
word: fucklet
word: fuck trophy
word: hump dumpling
word: pet sperm
word: semen demon
word: shitling
word: sperm blossom
word: sperm buttercup
word: sperm bubbles
word: bitchling
word: terence
glosses: A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
examples: text: Here's looking at you, kid.
ref: 1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casablanca, spoken by Rick (Humphrey Bogart):
synonyms: word: bairn
word: brat
word: child
word: chit
word: crumb cruncher
word: crumb crusher
word: crumb grinder
word: crumb snatcher
word: fry
word: juvenile
word: kid
word: kiddie
word: little one
word: minor
word: mini-me
word: moppet
word: munchkin
word: nipper
word: slip
word: small fry
word: sprog
word: sprout
word: tart
word: tot
word: tyke
word: youngling
word: youngster
word: young'un
word: youth
word: crib lizard
word: crotch critter
word: crotch dropping
word: crotch fruit
word: crotch goblin
word: crotch monkey
word: crotchling
word: cum cheese
word: cum pet
word: cunt dropping
word: fucklet
word: fuck trophy
word: hump dumpling
word: pet sperm
word: semen demon
word: shitling
word: sperm blossom
word: sperm buttercup
word: sperm bubbles
word: bitchling
word: terence
glosses: A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
raw_tags: in the vocative
examples: 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.
synonyms: word: bairn
word: brat
word: child
word: chit
word: crumb cruncher
word: crumb crusher
word: crumb grinder
word: crumb snatcher
word: fry
word: juvenile
word: kid
word: kiddie
word: little one
word: minor
word: mini-me
word: moppet
word: munchkin
word: nipper
word: slip
word: small fry
word: sprog
word: sprout
word: tart
word: tot
word: tyke
word: youngling
word: youngster
word: young'un
word: youth
word: crib lizard
word: crotch critter
word: crotch dropping
word: crotch fruit
word: crotch goblin
word: crotch monkey
word: crotchling
word: cum cheese
word: cum pet
word: cunt dropping
word: fucklet
word: fuck trophy
word: hump dumpling
word: pet sperm
word: semen demon
word: shitling
word: sperm blossom
word: sperm buttercup
word: sperm bubbles
word: bitchling
word: terence
glosses: A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
examples: text: He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy.
text: I went indeed intending to kill a Kid out of my own Flock, and bring him home and dreſs it. But as I was going, I ſaw a She Goat lying down in the Shade, and two young Kids ſitting by her, […]
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 249:
text: The lofty mountains roſe faint to the ſight and loſt their foreheads in the diſtant ſkies: the little hills, cloathed in darker green and ſkirted with embroidered vales, diſcovered the ſecret haunts of kids and bounding roes.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:
glosses: A young goat.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1912, Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs: Letter 3:
glosses: A young goat.
Kidskin.
synonyms: kid leather
examples: text: So saying, he gathered together, and brought to a flame, the decaying brands which lay scattered on the ample hearth; took from the larger board a mess of pottage and seethed kid, placed it upon the small table at which he had himself supped, and without waiting the Jew's thanks, went to the other side of the hall;—[…].
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 85–86:
glosses: A young goat.
The meat of a young goat.
synonyms: cabrito
glosses: A young antelope.
glosses: A deception; an act of kidding somebody.
examples: text: peaceable, well-disposed chaps as ever eat duff (dough) out of a kid
ref: 1830, James Fenimore Cooper, The Water-witch, Or, The Skimmer of the Seas:
text: We fasted till night, when one of the boys came along with a couple of "kids" containing a thin, saffron-coloured fluid, with oily particles floating on top. The young wag told us this was soup: it turned out to be nothing more than oleaginous warm water.
ref: 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, “Reception from the Frenchman”, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 109:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from kid (noun)
word: adult third culture kid
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word: anarkid
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word: ball kid
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word: band kid
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word: biokid
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word: boomerang kid
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word: candy kid
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word: club kid
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word: comeback kid
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word: cool kid
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word: cyberkid
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word: divorced kid
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word: Dongola kid
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word: e-kid
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word: emokid
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word: everykid
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word: fankid
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word: furkid
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word: godkid
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word: grandkid
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word: handle with kid gloves
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word: in kid
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word: iPad kid
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word: is that what the kids are calling it these days
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word: kandi kid
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word: kid brother
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word: kidcom
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word: kidcore
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word: kidder
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word: kiddie
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word: kiddiot
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word: kiddish
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word: kiddo
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word: kid-dom
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word: kiddom
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word: kiddy
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word: kideo
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word: kidfic
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word: kidfluence
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word: kidfluencer
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word: kidfucker
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word: kid-glove
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word: kid glove
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word: kidhood
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word: kidkind
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word: kidless
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word: kidlet
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word: kidlike
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word: kidling
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word: kidlit
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word: kidly
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word: Kidman
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word: kidnap
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word: kidology
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word: kid on the square
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word: kidpic
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word: kid porn
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word: kidproof
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word: kid show
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word: kidsicle
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word: kid sister
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word: kidskin
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word: kidsman
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word: kidspeak
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word: kid stuff
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word: kidsy
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word: kid table
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word: kidult
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word: kidvid
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word: latchkey kid
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word: like a kid at Christmas
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word: like a kid in a candy store
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word: like a kid on Christmas morning
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word: logo kid
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word: merkid
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word: new kid in town
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word: new kid on the block
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word: no sabo kid
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word: oor kid
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word: our kid
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word: preacher's kid syndrome
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word: quiz kid
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word: quiz-kid
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word: rich-kid
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word: rich kid
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word: scene kid
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word: schoolkid
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word: snowkid
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word: stepkid
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word: street kid
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word: struggle kid
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word: superkid
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word: theater kid
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word: theatre kid
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word: third culture kid
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word: transkid
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word: vidkid
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word: whiz-kid
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word: whiz kid
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word: whizz kid
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word: wonderkid
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word: wor kid