kid
verb
- to joke or deceive, "just kidding", joking, fooling
noun
- young person
- young goat
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈkɪd/ / [ˈkʰɪd]
name
Etymology: Abbreviation
- Initialism of King's Indian Defence.
noun
Etymology: Compare Welsh cidysen.
- Synonym of faggot (“bundle of heath and furze”).
“Now, for as much as this Fowle is a great deſtruction vnto the young Spawne or Frie of Fiſh, it ſhall bee good for the preſeruation thereof, to ſtake down into the bottomes of your Ponds good long Kids or Faggots of bruſh-woods, […]”
verb
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.
- To dupe or deceive.
“Are you kidding me?”
“I kid you not!”
- To dupe or deceive.
“Stop kidding me! It's not funny.”
- To dupe or deceive.
“You're kidding yourself if you think you can be a rockstar.”
- To mock or make a fool of (someone) in a playful way.
“They were always kidding her for her stutter.”
- To joke.
“You must be kidding!”
“I'm only kidding!”
- Of a goat: to give birth.
“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."”