kid
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
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.
Inflected forms:
form: kids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kids
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kidding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kidded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kidded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: She's a kid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends.
“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.
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.
"I should never dream of calling a kid like you a woman," said Digory loftily.
‘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?’
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.
She not my lover like "Billie Jean", but the kid is mine
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.
gloss: A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Only '90s kids will remember this toy.
He's been living in Los Angeles for years now, but he's a Florida kid.
gloss: A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: This is Bobby, he is our youngest kid.
gloss: A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Here's looking at you, kid.
gloss: A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
informal
uncountable
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.
gloss: A young goat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy.
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, […]
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.
gloss: A young goat.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A young goat.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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;—[…].
gloss: A young antelope.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A deception; an act of kidding somebody.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: peaceable, well-disposed chaps as ever eat duff (dough) out of a kid
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.
gloss: To dupe or deceive.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
participle
present
transitive
usually
examples: Are you kidding me?
I kid you not!
"They are all very suspicious about the wording. I am always thinking up new ways of kidding them."
gloss: To dupe or deceive.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
participle
present
transitive
usually
examples: Stop kidding me! It's not funny.
gloss: To dupe or deceive.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
participle
present
reflexive
transitive
usually
examples: You're kidding yourself if you think you can be a rockstar.
gloss: To mock or make a fool of (someone) in a playful way.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
participle
present
transitive
usually
examples: They were always kidding her for her stutter.
gloss: To joke.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
participle
present
usually
examples: You must be kidding!
I'm only kidding!
No kidding!
"Blind!" exclaimed the old fellow, sitting up in startled wonderment. "You mean it, sir? You walk all right and you look at me as if you saw me. You're kidding surely."
gloss: Of a goat: to give birth.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: That nanny over there with the white tail has kidded every year for the last five years.
"They can kid twice a year if things are right, and they often throw twins and triplets."
Related words: kid on
suede
Derived words: adult third culture kid
anarkid
ball kid
band kid
Bebe's kid
big kid
biokid
boomerang kid
candy kid
club kid
comeback kid
cool kid
cyberkid
divorced kid
Dongola kid
e-kid
emokid
everykid
fankid
furkid
godkid
grandkid
handle with kid gloves
in kid
iPad kid
is that what the kids are calling it these days
kandi kid
kid brother
kidcom
kidcore
kidder
kiddie
kiddiot
kiddish
kiddo
kid-dom
kiddom
kiddy
kideo
kidfic
kidfluence
kidfluencer
kidfucker
kid-glove
kid glove
kidhood
kidkind
kidless
kidlet
kidlike
kidling
kidlit
kidly
Kidman
kidnap
kidology
kid on the square
kidpic
kid porn
kidproof
kid show
kidsicle
kid sister
kidskin
kidsman
kidspeak
kid stuff
kidsy
kid table
kidult
kidvid
latchkey kid
like a kid at Christmas
like a kid in a candy store
like a kid on Christmas morning
logo kid
merkid
new kid in town
new kid on the block
no sabo kid
oor kid
our kid
preacher's kid syndrome
quiz kid
quiz-kid
rich kid
rich-kid
scene kid
schoolkid
snowkid
stepkid
street kid
struggle kid
superkid
theater kid
theatre kid
third culture kid
transkid
treat like a Make-A-Wish kid
vidkid
whiz-kid
whiz kid
whizz kid
wonderkid
wor kid
all kidding aside
I kid you not
kid around
kidding aside
who am I kidding
you're kidding
you've got to be kidding me
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: طِفْل
roman: ṭifl
lang: Arabic
word: دري
roman: darri
lang: Arabic
word: بعلوك
roman: baʕlūk
lang: Arabic
word: برهوش
roman: barhūš
lang: Armenian
word: բալիկ
roman: balik
lang: Armenian
word: երեխա
roman: erexa
lang: Baluchi
word: چک
roman: cukk
lang: Bulgarian
word: хлапе
roman: hlape
lang: Bulgarian
word: хлапак
roman: hlapak
lang: Bulgarian
word: хлапачка
roman: hlapačka
lang: Catalan
word: nen
lang: Catalan
word: nena
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 細路 /细路
roman: sai³ lou⁴
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 細路仔 /细路仔
roman: sai³ lou⁴ zai²
lang: Chinese
word: 囡仔
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 孩子
roman: háizi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 小孩
roman: xiǎohái
lang: Danish
word: barn
lang: Dutch
word: kind
lang: Esperanto
word: infano
lang: Finnish
word: kersa
lang: Finnish
word: skidi
lang: Finnish
word: pirpana
lang: Finnish
word: ipana
lang: Finnish
word: nassikka
lang: Finnish
word: penska
lang: French
word: gamin
lang: French
word: gosse
lang: French
word: bambin
lang: French
word: môme
lang: Georgian
word: ბავშვი
roman: bavšvi
lang: German
word: Kind
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃
roman: frasts
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽
roman: barn
lang: Ancient Greek
word: παῖς
roman: paîs
lang: Ancient Greek
word: παίδιον
roman: paídion
lang: Ancient Greek
word: τέκνον
roman: téknon
lang: Hebrew
word: ילד
lang: Hindi
word: बच्चा
roman: baccā
lang: Hindi
word: बच्ची
roman: baccī
lang: Hungarian
word: kölyök
lang: Hungarian
word: srác
lang: Icelandic
word: krakki
lang: Ido
word: puereto
lang: Indonesian
word: anak
lang: Italian
word: bambino
lang: Italian
word: bimbo
lang: Japanese
word: 子供
roman: kodomo
lang: Japanese
word: 子
roman: ko
lang: Khmer
word: ក្មេងម្នាក់
roman: kmeɛŋ mneak
lang: Kyrgyz
word: бала
roman: bala
lang: Kyrgyz
word: наристе
roman: nariste
lang: Macedonian
word: клинец
roman: klinec
lang: Macedonian
word: клинка
roman: klinka
lang: Maltese
word: tfajjel
lang: Marshallese
word: boea
lang: Navajo
word: chąąmąʼii
lang: Norwegian
word: barn
lang: Norwegian
word: unge
lang: Persian
word: بچه
roman: bačče
lang: Polish
word: dzieciak
lang: Portuguese
word: criança
lang: Portuguese
word: miúdo
lang: Portuguese
word: piá
lang: Portuguese
word: guri
lang: Russian
word: ребёнок
roman: rebjónok
lang: Russian
word: па́рень
roman: párenʹ
lang: Russian
word: девчо́нка
roman: devčónka
lang: Sanskrit
word: शिशु
roman: śiśu
lang: Sanskrit
word: बालक
roman: bālaka
lang: Sanskrit
word: जात
roman: jāta
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: klinac
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: klinka
lang: Spanish
word: niño
lang: Spanish
word: buqui
lang: Spanish
word: chamaco
lang: Spanish
word: chamo
lang: Spanish
word: chango
lang: Spanish
word: chino
lang: Spanish
word: churumbel
lang: Spanish
word: cipote
lang: Spanish
word: crío
lang: Spanish
word: güila
lang: Spanish
word: huerco
lang: Spanish
word: nene
lang: Spanish
word: patojo
lang: Spanish
word: chiquillo
lang: Spanish
word: zagal
lang: Spanish
word: chaval
lang: Spanish
word: chibolo
lang: Spanish
word: escuintle
lang: Swedish
word: unge
lang: Tagalog
word: bata
lang: Turkish
word: çocuk
lang: Ukrainian
word: дити́на
roman: dytýna
lang: Ukrainian
word: малю́к
roman: maljúk
lang: Ukrainian
word: дитя́
roman: dytjá
lang: Ukrainian
word: маля́
roman: maljá
lang: Vietnamese
word: nhóc
lang: Vietnamese
word: con nít
lang: Volapük
word: cil
lang: Volapük
word: hicil
lang: Volapük
word: jicil
lang: Volapük
word: cilül
lang: Volapük
word: hicilül
lang: Volapük
word: jicilül
lang: Walloon
word: gamén
lang: Walloon
word: råpén
lang: Walloon
word: roufion
lang: Walloon
word: djambot
lang: Zazaki
word: qeç (diq)
lang: Zazaki
word: domon (diq)
lang: Bulgarian
word: хлапе́
roman: hlapé
lang: Catalan
word: nen
lang: Catalan
word: nena
lang: Danish
word: unge
lang: Danish
word: en ung
lang: Esperanto
word: junulo
lang: Finnish
word: kersa
lang: Finnish
word: skidi
lang: Finnish
word: nassikka
lang: French
word: gamin
lang: French
word: gosse
lang: French
word: flo
lang: German
word: Bursche
lang: German
word: Bube
lang: German
word: Halbstarker
lang: Hungarian
word: gyerek
lang: Hungarian
word: srác
lang: Hungarian
word: suhanc
lang: Icelandic
word: barn
lang: Icelandic
word: krakki
lang: Italian
word: ragazzo
lang: Japanese
word: 童
roman: warawa
lang: Korean
word: 어린이
roman: eorini
lang: Marshallese
word: boea
lang: Norwegian
word: ungdom
lang: Polish
word: dzieciak
lang: Portuguese
word: jovem
lang: Portuguese
word: moleque
lang: Russian
word: мальчи́шка
roman: malʹčíška
lang: Russian
word: девчо́нка
roman: devčónka
lang: Russian
word: паца́н
roman: pacán
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: dečko
lang: Spanish
word: chico
lang: Spanish
word: muchacho
lang: Spanish
word: cabro
lang: Spanish
word: chango
lang: Spanish
word: chaval
lang: Spanish
word: chavalo
lang: Spanish
word: chavo
lang: Spanish
word: chibolo
lang: Spanish
word: chiquillo
lang: Spanish
word: lolo
lang: Spanish
word: pelado
lang: Spanish
word: pibe
lang: Spanish
word: chamaco
lang: Spanish
word: péndex
lang: Turkish
word: delikanlı
lang: Ukrainian
word: хлопчи́на
roman: xlopčýna
lang: Ukrainian
word: ді́вчина
roman: dívčyna
lang: Zazaki
word: tut
lang: Zazaki
word: pıt
lang: Zazaki
word: resaye (diq)
lang: Arabic
word: جَدْي
roman: jady
lang: Arabic
word: جدي
roman: gedi
lang: Armenian
word: ուլ
roman: ul
lang: Aromanian
word: ed
lang: Asturian
word: cabritu
lang: Belarusian
word: казляня́
roman: kazljanjá
lang: Breton
word: gaorig
lang: Bulgarian
word: я́ре
roman: járe
lang: Bulgarian
word: козле
roman: kozle
lang: Catalan
word: cabrit
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 小山羊
roman: xiǎoshānyáng
lang: Cornish
word: minen
lang: Czech
word: kůzle
lang: Danish
word: gedekid
lang: Danish
word: kid
lang: Dutch
word: geitje
lang: Esperanto
word: kaprido
lang: Faroese
word: geitarlamb
lang: Finnish
word: kili
lang: Finnish
word: vohla
lang: French
word: chevreau
lang: French
word: biquet
lang: Galician
word: curcio
lang: Galician
word: chibo
lang: Galician
word: cabuxo
lang: Galician
word: bodeixo
lang: Galician
word: rexelo
lang: Galician
word: cabrito
lang: Galician
word: añagoto
lang: Georgian
word: თიკანი
roman: tiḳani
lang: German
word: Kitz
lang: German
word: Zicklein
lang: German
word: Geißlein
lang: German
word: Gitzi
lang: Middle High German
word: zickelīn
lang: Old High German
word: zickī
lang: Old High German
word: zickīn
lang: Old High German
word: kizzī
lang: Old High German
word: kizzīn
lang: Greek
word: κατσικάκι
roman: katsikáki
lang: Greek
word: κατσίκι
roman: katsíki
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἔριφος
roman: ériphos
lang: Greenlandic
word: savaasaaraq
lang: Hebrew
word: גדי
roman: g'dí
lang: Hungarian
word: gida
lang: Hungarian
word: gödölye
lang: Icelandic
word: kið
lang: Indonesian
word: anak kambing
lang: Interlingua
word: capretto
lang: Irish
word: meannán
lang: Middle Irish
word: menn
lang: Middle Irish
word: mendán
lang: Old Irish
word: mend
lang: Italian
word: capretto
lang: Japanese
word: 仔ヤギ
roman: ko-yagi
lang: Kashmiri
word: مۄنٛگُر
roman: mọngur
lang: Kashmiri
word: مۄنٛگٕر
roman: mọngụr
lang: Kazakh
word: лақ
roman: laq
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: karik
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: kar
lang: Kyrgyz
word: улак
roman: ulak
lang: Latin
word: haedus
lang: Latvian
word: kazlēns
lang: Lithuanian
word: oželis
lang: Lithuanian
word: ožkutis
lang: Macedonian
word: јаре
roman: jare
lang: Maltese
word: gidi
lang: Maltese
word: gidja
lang: Manx
word: mannan
lang: Navajo
word: tłʼízí yázhí
lang: Norman
word: p'tit bichot
lang: Norman
word: bichette
lang: Norwegian
word: killing
lang: Norwegian
word: kje
lang: Occitan
word: cabrit
lang: Old Church Slavonic
word: козьлѧ
roman: kozĭlę
lang: Old Norse
word: kið
lang: Persian
word: بزغاله
roman: bozġâle
lang: Persian
word: هیرک
roman: hirak
lang: Polish
word: koźlę
lang: Portuguese
word: cabrita
lang: Portuguese
word: cabrito
lang: Punjabi
word: ਮੇਮਣਾ
roman: memṇā
lang: Romanian
word: ied
lang: Romanian
word: iadă
lang: Russian
word: козлёнок
roman: kozljónok
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: meann
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: јаре
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: козлић
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: jare
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kozlić
lang: Sicilian
word: ciareddu
lang: Slovak
word: kozľa
lang: Slovak
word: kozliatko
lang: Slovene
word: kozliček
lang: Spanish
word: cabrito
lang: Spanish
word: chivo
lang: Swahili
word: mwanambuzi
lang: Swedish
word: killing
lang: Swedish
word: kid
lang: Tagalog
word: batang kambing
lang: Telugu
word: మేకపిల్ల
roman: mēkapilla
lang: Turkish
word: oğlak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: اوغلاق
roman: oğlak
lang: Turkmen
word: guzy
lang: Tuvan
word: анай
roman: anay
lang: Ukrainian
word: козеня́
roman: kozenjá
lang: Ukrainian
word: цапеня́
roman: capenjá
lang: Uyghur
word: ئوغلاق
roman: oghlaq
lang: Volapük
word: kaparül
lang: Volapük
word: hikaparül
lang: Volapük
word: jikaparül
lang: Welsh
word: myn
lang: Wolof
word: tef bi
lang: Yiddish
word: ציגעלע
roman: tsigele
lang: Zazaki
word: kavrek
lang: Zazaki
word: bızêk (diq)
lang: Zazaki
word: gıdık
lang: Dutch
word: beetnemen
lang: Finnish
word: huiputtaa
lang: Finnish
word: narrata
lang: Finnish
word: petkuttaa
lang: Finnish
word: puijata
lang: Finnish
word: laskea leikkiä
lang: Old French
word: gaber
lang: German
word: an der Nase herumführen
lang: German
word: veräppeln
lang: Hungarian
word: megviccel
lang: Hungarian
word: hülyít
lang: Hungarian
word: szívat
lang: Hungarian
word: átráz
lang: Icelandic
word: fíflast í
lang: Irish
word: dallamullóg a chur ar
lang: Russian
word: надува́ть
roman: naduvátʹ
lang: Swedish
word: narra