kid

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a human offspring of any age

   All adults were once kids.

2. 2
   noun

   soft smooth leather from the hide of a young goat

   kid gloves

3. 3
   verb

   be silly or tease one another

   After we relaxed, we just kidded around

4. 4
   noun

   A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.

   She's a kid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends.

5. 5
   noun

   A young goat.

   He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy.

6. 6
   noun

   A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.

   peaceable, well-disposed chaps as ever eat duff (dough) out of a kid

7. 7
   verb

   To dupe or deceive.

   Are you kidding me?

8. 8
   verb

   To mock or make a fool of (someone) in a playful way.

   They were always kidding her for her stutter.

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.