kid
A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
Noun 4 meanings
A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
“She's a kid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends.”
A young goat.
“He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy.”
A young antelope.
A deception; an act of kidding somebody.
Verb 4 meanings
To dupe or deceive.
“Are you kidding me?”
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!”
Of a goat: to give birth.
“That nanny over there with the white tail has kidded every year for the last five years.”
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.
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KID at a glance
KID has 3 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (K 5 + I 1 + D 2) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,068 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with kid
All rhymes- SKID9
- GRANDKID15
- WONDERKID18
- SCHOOLKID19
- NONSKID12
- ANTISKID13
- TAILSKID13
- FURKID14
- UNKID10
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