Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A young goat.
- n. The young of a similar animal, such as an antelope.
- n. The flesh of a young goat.
- n. Leather made from the skin of a young goat; kidskin.
- n. An article made from this leather.
- n. Informal A child.
- n. Informal A young person.
- n. Slang Pal. Used as a term of familiar address, especially for a young person: Hi, kid! What's up?
- adj. Made of kid.
- adj. Informal Younger than oneself: my kid brother.
- v. Informal To mock playfully; tease. See Synonyms at banter.
- v. Informal To deceive in fun; fool.
- v. Informal To engage in teasing or good-humored fooling.
- v. To bear young. Used of a goat or an antelope.
- idiom. no kidding Used to express disbelief.
- idiom. no kidding Used to express scornful acknowledgment of the obvious.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A young goat.
- n. The flesh of a young goat.
- 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.
- n. The roe deer in its first year.
- n. A child, especially a male child.
- n. plural Gloves made of kid or of the leather so called. See def. 3.
- Made of kid or of the leather so called.
- See I., 3.
- To bring forth (young): said especially of a goat.
- A Middle English preterit of kithe.
- Known; well-known; famous; renowned: formerly, in poetry, a general term of commendation.
- n. A small tub; nautical, a small tub or vessel in which sailors receive their food.
- n. A box or wooden pen built on the deck of a fishing-vessel to receive fish as they are caught.
- n. A fagot or bundle, as of heath or furze.
- n. A bundle of sticks or brush planted on a beach to stop shingle or gather sand, to act as a groin.
- 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.
- To bind up, as a fagot.
- To hoax; humbug; deceive.
- n. A hoax: humbug.
- n. plural In astronomy, a pair of small stars in the constellation Auriga, represented as kids held in the hand of the charioteer.
Wiktionary
- n. A young goat.
- n. Of a goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid
- n. Kidskin.
- n. The meat of a young goat.
- n. A young antelope.
- n. A child or young person.
- n. An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
- v. To make a fool of (someone)
- v. To make a joke with (someone)
- v. Of a goat, to give birth to kids
- v. To joke
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A young goat.
- n. A young child or infant; hence, a simple person, easily imposed on.
- n. A kind of leather made of the skin of the young goat, or of the skin of rats, etc.
- n. Gloves made of kid.
- n. A small wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food.
- n. Among pugilists, thieves, gunfighters, etc., a youthful expert; -- chiefly used attributively.
- v. To bring forth a young goat.
- n. A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.
- of kythe.
- v. See kiddy, v. t.
WordNet 3.0
- n. soft smooth leather from the hide of a young goat
- v. be silly or tease one another
- v. tell false information to for fun
- n. a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age
- n. English dramatist (1558-1594)
- n. a young person of either sex
- n. young goat
Etymologies
- Middle English kide, from Old Norse kidh.
Examples
“I can also read it that she would need a kid to play outside, but I think it's not all about ME (or Ann?) getting to play ... it's playing with a *kid* (preferably more than one, two or more always works better) in the snow.”
“I have to remind myself when a kid is acting out its more than likely just a way to get attention!”
“Just when you think your kid is a wierdo, you find other kids doing the same thing.”
“Anyways — fast-forward like 25 years or something and this kid is a grown man name Perseus, but he totally looks like Jake Sully from AVATAR, buzz cut and everything.”
“But for Christine to say that children just want books about adventure or just being a kid is an oversimplification of what children truly want.”
“Taking one night to go out and act like a kid is about all I can do.”
“I'm glad the kid is alright and I hope Angel Rest in Peace!!!”
“Joe basically stakes his sort of future on this kid, thinks that this kid is his golden ticket.”
“Since my kid is a "W", I thought I had plenty of time to use the bathroom among all the "H's" being called.”
“Using cameras on a broad brush basis with troubled families in general because the kid is a delinquent, etc. sounds like bad policy on several levels.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kid’.
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You animal!
Names of animals that are also used to describe kinds of people. Nouns only, preferably single word.
For a related list, see sionnach's beastly verbs.rabbit, shark, hog, pussycat, bear, bull, skunk, hawk, wildcat, buck, slug, heifer and 112 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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Meats: For All the Carnivores out There
Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!
Just kidding. Kind of.yak, wood pigeon, wild turkey, wild boar, venison, veal, turtle, turkey, squirrel, squab, snail, rattlesnake and 51 more...
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Glove-making
Words from the art of making gloves.
trank, fourchette, mocha, forget, forgette, welt, doeskin, cheveril, kid, sallow, mousquetaire, berlin and 1 more...
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Viking Words
From http://www.vikingrune.com/2009/10/viking-words-in-english/
anger, birth, bleak, bloom, call, cast, crawl, crook, die, fellow, gear, get and 36 more...

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