Word: kid Part of Speech: noun 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. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪd/, [ˈkʰɪd] 1. A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: She's a kid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends. Example: “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. 2. A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: Only '90s kids will remember this toy. Example: He's been living in Los Angeles for years now, but he's a Florida kid. 3. A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: This is Bobby, he is our youngest kid. 4. A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: Here's looking at you, kid. 5. A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult. Labels: colloquial, countable, informal, uncountable Example: 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. 6. A young goat. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy. Example: 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, […] 7. A young goat. Labels: uncountable Example: 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. 8. A young goat. Labels: uncountable Example: 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;—[…]. 9. A young antelope. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A deception; an act of kidding somebody. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable 11. A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: peaceable, well-disposed chaps as ever eat duff (dough) out of a kid Example: 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.