kid
Other forms: kids; kidding; kidded
If a farmer offers to introduce you to her kid, you might not know if she means her child or her baby goat.
A kid is a child, informally, and it's also a young goat. Sometimes the word kid means a kind of soft leather made from goat skin. When kid is used as a verb, it means to tease or jokingly deceive someone — to kid them. Some sticklers for formality object to using kid to mean "child," but that meaning has been around since the 1590s. The "teasing" definition of kid comes from the sense of "treat like a child."
Definitions of kid
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young goat
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type of:
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caprine animal, goat
any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns
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caprine animal, goat
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soft smooth leather from the hide of a young goat
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a young person of either sex“they're just kids”
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bairn
a child: son or daughter
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buster
a robust child
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changeling
a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy
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child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child, wunderkind
a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age
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foster child, foster-child, fosterling
a child who is raised by foster parents
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imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp
one who is playfully mischievous
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kiddy
a young child
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orphan
a child who has lost both parents
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peanut
a young child who is small for his age
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poster child
a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes
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kindergartener, kindergartner, preschooler
a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten
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silly
a word used for misbehaving children
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sprog
a child
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bambino, toddler, tot, yearling
a young child
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urchin
a poor and often mischievous city child
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street child, waif
a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned
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foster daughter, foster-daughter
someone who is raised as a daughter although not related by birth
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foster son, foster-son
someone who is raised as a son although not related by birth
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poster boy
a male poster child
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poster girl
a female poster child
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ragamuffin, tatterdemalion
a dirty shabbily clothed urchin
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guttersnipe, street urchin
a child who spends most of his time in the streets, especially in slum areas
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brat, holy terror, little terror, terror
a very troublesome child
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type of:
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juvenile, juvenile person
a young person, not fully developed
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a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age“they were able to send their kids to college”
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synonyms:
child
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Antonyms:
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parent
a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
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army brat
the child of a career officer of the United States Army
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babe, baby, infant
a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
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female offspring
a child who is female
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male offspring, man-child
a child who is male
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stepchild
a child of your spouse by a former marriage
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blue baby
an infant born with a bluish color; usually has a defective heart
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cherub
a sweet innocent baby
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daughter, girl
a female human offspring
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abandoned infant, foundling
a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown
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godchild
an infant who is sponsored by an adult (the godparent) at baptism
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neonate, newborn, newborn baby, newborn infant
a baby from birth to four weeks
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nurseling, nursling, suckling
an infant considered in relation to its nurse
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papoose, pappoose
an American Indian infant
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boy, son
a male human offspring
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stepdaughter
a daughter of your spouse by a former marriage
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stepson
the son your spouse by a former marriage
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test-tube baby
a baby conceived by fertilization that occurs outside the mother's body; the woman's ova are removed and mixed with sperm in a culture medium - if fertilization occurs the blastocyte is implanted in the woman's uterus
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war baby
conceived or born during war
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parent
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tell false information to for fun
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synonyms:
pull the leg of
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type of:
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befool, cod, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in
fool or hoax
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befool, cod, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in
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be silly or tease one another
Pronunciation
US
/kɪd/
UK
/kɪd/
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