different between kid vs jolly

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English kide, from Old Norse kið (“young goat”), from Proto-Germanic *kidj?, *kitt?n? (“goatling, kid”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *g?aydn-, *??aydn- (“goat”) or Proto-Indo-European *gid?- (“kid, goatling, little goat”). Compare Swedish and Danish kid, German Kitz and Kitze, Albanian kedh and kec.

Sense of child since 1590s as cant, since 1840s in informal use.

Noun

kid (plural kids)

1. A young goat.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe: Friday's Education,

     I went, indeed, intending to kill a kid out of my own flock; and bring it home and dress it; but as I was going I saw a she-goat lying down in the shade, and two young kids sitting by her.

2. Of a female goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid.
3. Kidskin.

   Synonym: kid leather

   • 1912, Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs: Letter 3,

     I have three pairs of kid gloves. I've had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never real kid gloves with five fingers.

4. (uncountable) The meat of a young goat.

   Synonym: cabrito
5. A young antelope.
6. (informal) A child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:child

   • 2007 July 5, Barack Obama, Remarks of Senator Barack Obama to the National Education Association Annual Meeting,

     Our kids are why all of you are in this room today. Our kids are why you wake up wondering how you'll make a difference and go to bed thinking about tomorrow's lesson plan. Our kids are why you walk into that classroom every day even when you're not getting the support, or the pay, or the respect that you deserve - because you believe that every child should have a chance to succeed; that every child can be taught.
7. (informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area.

8. (informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.

9. (in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
10. (colloquial) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
    • 2007 June 3, Eben Moglen, speech, Freeing the Mind: Free Software and the end of proprietary culture,

      I remember as a kid lawyer working at IBM in the summer of 1983, when a large insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut, for the first time asked to buy 12000 IBM PCs in a single order.

11. (dated) A deception; an act of kidding somebody.
12. (nautical) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.

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Derived terms

Translations

Verb

kid (third-person singular simple present kids, present participle kidding, simple past and past participle kidded)

1. (transitive, colloquial) To make a fool of (someone).
2. (transitive, colloquial) To dupe or deceive (someone).
3. (transitive, colloquial) To make a joke with (someone).
4. (intransitive) Of a goat, to give birth to kids.
5. (intransitive, colloquial) To joke.

Translations

See also

• suede
• kid on

Etymology 2

Compare Welsh cidysen.

Noun

kid (plural kids)

1. A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.

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References

Further reading

• kid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• IDK, idk

French

Etymology

English kid

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kid/

Noun

kid m (plural kids)

1. (colloquial) kid

   Synonyms: gamin, gosse, (regional) minot

Hungarian

Etymology

ki (“who”) +? -d (“your, of yours”, possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kid]
• Hyphenation: kid

Pronoun

kid

1. second-person singular single-possession possessive of ki

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /çid?/

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish kid, of same origin as native kje (“goatling”).

Noun

kid n (definite singular kidet, indefinite plural kid, definite plural kida or kidene)

1. the meat of a goatling

References

• “kid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

kìd n (definite singular kìdet, indefinite plural kìd, definite plural kìdi)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1917; superseded by kje

Sikaritai

Noun

kid

1. banana

Further reading

• Heljä & Duane Clouse, Kirikiri and the Western Lakes Plains Languages (1993)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish kiþ, from Old Norse kið, from Proto-Germanic *kidj?‚ from Proto-Indo-European *gid?-.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?d

Noun

kid n

1. a young deer

Declension

Volapük

Noun

kid (nominative plural kids)

1. kiss

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English joli, jolif (“merry, cheerful”), from Old French joli, jolif (“merry, joyful”)It is uncertain whether the Old French word is from Old Norse jól ("a midwinter feast, Yule", hence "fest-ive") , in which case, equivalent to yule +? -ive; or ultimately from Latin gaude? (see etymology at joy). For the loss of final -f compare tardy, hasty, hussy, etc.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d??li/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d??li/
• Rhymes: -?li
• Hyphenation: jol?ly

Adjective

jolly (comparative jollier, superlative jolliest)

1. Full of merriment and high spirits; jovial; joyous; merry.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, "The Faerie Queene", Book I, Canot 2, xi-xii:

     "Full jolly Knight he seemed […] full large of limb and every joint / He was, and cared not for God or man a point."

   • 1815, William Wordsworth, "Hart-Leap Well," Part Second:

     "A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! / But something ails it now: the spot is curst. ..."

   • 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., "The Stage Coach":

     […] he is swelled into jolly dimensions by frequent potations of malt liquors […]

2. (colloquial, dated) Splendid, excellent, pleasant.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch. 16:

     Jo silently notices how white and small her hand is and what a jolly servant she must be to wear such sparkling rings.

3. (informal) drunk

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

jolly (plural jollies)

1. (Britain, dated) A pleasure trip or excursion.
2. (slang, dated) A marine in the English navy.

   Synonym: joey

   • 1896, Rudyard Kipling, Soldier an' Sailor Too

     I'm a Jolly — 'Er Majesty's Jolly — soldier an' sailor too!

Adverb

jolly (comparative more jolly, superlative most jolly)

1. (Britain, dated) very, extremely
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 37:

     Adrian thought it worth while to try out his new slang. ‘I say, you fellows, here's a rum go. Old Biffo was jolly odd this morning. He gave me a lot of pi-jaw about slacking and then invited me to tea. No rotting! He did really.’

Derived terms

• jolly well

Verb

jolly (third-person singular simple present jollies, present participle jollying, simple past and past participle jollied)

1. (transitive) To amuse or divert.

Derived terms

• jolly along

Translations

References

• Jolly in the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, vol. 15, p. 495.

Italian

Etymology

From English jolly joker, an older name for the joker card in a deck of cards.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???l.li/

Noun

jolly m (invariable)

1. (card games) joker
2. wild card

See also