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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A young goat.
  2. n. The young of a similar animal, such as an antelope.
  3. n. The flesh of a young goat.
  4. n. Leather made from the skin of a young goat; kidskin.
  5. n. An article made from this leather.
  6. n. Informal A child.
  7. n. Informal A young person.
  8. n. Slang Pal. Used as a term of familiar address, especially for a young person: Hi, kid! What's up?
  9. adj. Made of kid.
  10. adj. Informal Younger than oneself: my kid brother.
  11. v. Informal To mock playfully; tease. See Synonyms at banter.
  12. v. Informal To deceive in fun; fool.
  13. v. Informal To engage in teasing or good-humored fooling.
  14. v. To bear young. Used of a goat or an antelope.
  15. idiom. no kidding Used to express disbelief.
  16. idiom. no kidding Used to express scornful acknowledgment of the obvious.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A young goat.
  2. n. The flesh of a young goat.
  3. n. Leather made from the skin of a kid, used in making shoes and gloves. Much of the leather so used and sold as “kid” is made from other skins.
  4. n. The roe deer in its first year.
  5. n. A child, especially a male child.
  6. n. plural Gloves made of kid or of the leather so called. See def. 3.
  7. Made of kid or of the leather so called.
  8. See I., 3.
  9. To bring forth (young): said especially of a goat.
  10. A Middle English preterit of kithe.
  11. Known; well-known; famous; renowned: formerly, in poetry, a general term of commendation.
  12. n. A small tub; nautical, a small tub or vessel in which sailors receive their food.
  13. n. A box or wooden pen built on the deck of a fishing-vessel to receive fish as they are caught.
  14. n. A fagot or bundle, as of heath or furze.
  15. n. A bundle of sticks or brush planted on a beach to stop shingle or gather sand, to act as a groin.
  16. n. A bundle of sticks or twigs strapped in front of the legs to help a rider to keep his seat on a bucking horse.
  17. To bind up, as a fagot.
  18. To hoax; humbug; deceive.
  19. n. A hoax: humbug.
  20. n. plural In astronomy, a pair of small stars in the constellation Auriga, represented as kids held in the hand of the charioteer.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A young goat.
  2. n. Of a goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid
  3. n. Kidskin.
  4. n. The meat of a young goat.
  5. n. A young antelope.
  6. n. A child or young person.
  7. n. An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
  8. v. To make a fool of (someone)
  9. v. To make a joke with (someone)
  10. v. Of a goat, to give birth to kids
  11. v. To joke

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A young goat.
  2. n. A young child or infant; hence, a simple person, easily imposed on.
  3. n. A kind of leather made of the skin of the young goat, or of the skin of rats, etc.
  4. n. Gloves made of kid.
  5. n. A small wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food.
  6. n. Among pugilists, thieves, gunfighters, etc., a youthful expert; -- chiefly used attributively.
  7. v. To bring forth a young goat.
  8. n. A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.
  9. of kythe.
  10. v. See kiddy, v. t.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. soft smooth leather from the hide of a young goat
  2. v. be silly or tease one another
  3. v. tell false information to for fun
  4. n. a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age
  5. n. English dramatist (1558-1594)
  6. n. a young person of either sex
  7. n. young goat

Etymologies

  1. Middle English kide, from Old Norse kidh.

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  • mollusque Can't stand pat with that one. Jan 24, 2010

  • ruzuzu Sounds as if you're "butting heads" with the NY Times. (Does that help?)

    Edit: pterodactyl beat me by 7 seconds. It really gets my goat when I forget to see whether someone else has already commented. Jan 24, 2010

  • pterodactyl Hmm... how about the verb "to butt"? Goats butt, so I guess you could call a goat a "butter", which would make a kid a "little butter". Jan 24, 2010

  • rweintr The NY Times crossword of 1-3-10 listed kid as the answer to the clue "a little butter". I am trying to figure out the connection. Is it a small goat will produce just a little butter? Seems weak to me. Jan 24, 2010

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