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Meaning of KID

Pronunciation:  kid, kid

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  young goat
  2. [n]  a young person of either sex (between birth and puberty); "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters"
  3. [n]  a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age; "they had three children"; "they were able to send their kids to college"
  4. [n]  English dramatist (1558-1594)
  5. [n]  soft smooth leather from the hide of a young goat; "kid gloves"
  6. [v]  tell false information to for fun; "Are you pulling my leg?"
  7. [v]  be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around"
 
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 Synonyms: banter, chaff, child, fry, jolly, josh, kidskin, Kyd, minor, nestling, nipper, pull the leg of, shaver, small fry, Thomas Kid, Thomas Kyd, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster
 
 Antonyms: parent
 
 See Also: babe, baby, bairn, bait, bambino, befool, buster, caprine animal, changeling, child's body, cod, dramatist, dupe, family, family unit, female offspring, fool, foster-child, goat, gull, imp, infant, issue, juvenile, juvenile person, kiddy, leather, male offspring, man-child, monkey, offspring, orphan, picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny, playwright, preschooler, progeny, pupil, put on, put one across, put one over, rag, rally, rapscallion, rascal, razz, ride, scalawag, scallywag, scamp, schoolchild, silly, slang, sprog, stepchild, take in, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, toddler, tot, twit, urchin, waif, yearling

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Kid\, n. [Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. ki?, Dan. & Sw. kid;
    akin to OHG. kizzi, G. kitz, kitzchen, kitzlein.]
    1. (Zo["o]l.) A young goat.
             The . . . leopard shall lie down with the kid. --Is.
                                                   xi. 6.
    2. A young child or infant; hence, a simple person, easily
       imposed on. [Slang] --Charles Reade.
    3. A kind of leather made of the skin of the young goat, or
       of the skin of rats, etc.
    4. pl. Gloves made of kid. [Colloq. & Low]
    5. A small wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one
       in which they receive their food. --Cooper.
    
  2. \Kid\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Kidded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Kidding}.]
    To bring forth a young goat.
    
  3. \Kid\, n. [Cf. W. cidysen.]
    A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright.
    
  4. \Kid\, p. p.
    of {Kythe}. [Obs.] --Gower. Chaucer.
    
  5. \Kid\, v. t.
    See {Kiddy}, v. t. [Slang]
    
  6. \Kid\, n.
    Among pugilists, thieves, etc., a youthful expert; -- chiefly
    used attributively; as, kid Jones. [Cant]
    
 
Computing Dictionary
 
 Definition: 

Kernel language for Id. A refinement of P-TAC, used as an intermediate language for Id. Lambda-calculus with first-class let-blocks and I-structures.

["A Syntactic Approach to Program Transformations", Z. Ariola et al, SIGPLAN Notices 26(9):116-129 (Sept 1991)].

 
Dream Dictionary
 
 Definition: Seeing a kid (baby goat) in your dream, forewarns that your unscrupulous ways will bring about grief to a loved one. Seeing a kid in a meadow indicates that too much of your time is spent on pleasure and your business or educational pursuits will eventually suffer.
 
Easton Bible Dictionary
 
 Definition: 

the young of the goat. It was much used for food (Gen. 27:9; 38:17; Judg. 6:19; 14:6). The Mosaic law forbade to dress a kid in the milk of its dam, a law which is thrice repeated (Ex. 23:19; 34:26; Deut. 14:21). Among the various reasons assigned for this law, that appears to be the most satisfactory which regards it as "a protest against cruelty and outraging the order of nature." A kid cooked in its mother's milk is "a gross, unwholesome dish, and calculated to kindle animal and ferocious passions, and on this account Moses may have forbidden it. Besides, it is even yet associated with immoderate feasting; and originally, I suspect," says Dr. Thomson (Land and the Book), "was connected with idolatrous sacrifices."

 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: babyhood, bairn, bamboozle, banter, be merry with, befool, billy, billy goat, birdling, boyhood, breed, brood, buck, bud, calf, catling, chaff, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, chickling, chicky, child, childkind, children, chit, colt, crack a joke, crack wise, cub, darling, descendants, descent, doe, doeling, dogie, duckling, fake out, family, fawn, fledgling, fleer at, flimflam, foal, fool, fruit, fryer, fun, gibe at, girlhood, goat, gosling, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, gull, haze, he-goat, heirs, hoax, hoodwink, hostages to fortune, inheritors, innocent, issue, jape, jest, jive, joke, jolly, josh, juvenile, kid around, kids, kit, kitten, lamb, lambkin, lineage, litter, little bugger, little fellow, little guy, little innocent, little kids, little one, little ones, little tad, little tot, make a funny, make fun, make fun of, mite, mock, moppet, mountain goat, nanny, nanny goat, needle, nest, nestling, new generation, nipper, offspring, peewee, piglet, pigling, play on words, poke fun at, polliwog, posterity, progeny, pullet, pun, pup, puppy, put on, put one on, quip, rag, rally, razz, rib, ride, ridicule, rising generation, roast, scintillate, scoff at, seed, shaver, she-goat, shoat, small fry, sons, sparkle, spoof, succession, tad, tadpole, tease, tot, tots, treasures, trick, twit, utter a mot, weaner, wee tot, whelp, wisecrack, yeanling, young, young blood, young fry, young people, youngling, younglings, youngster, youngsters, youth
 

 

 

 

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