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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

Alternative forms

• mocque (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English mokken, from Old French mocquer, moquier (“to deride, jeer”), from Middle Dutch mocken (“to mumble”) or Middle Low German mucken (“to grumble, talk with the mouth half-opened”), both from Proto-West Germanic *mokkijan, *mukkijan (“to low, bellow; mumble”), from Proto-Germanic *mukkijan?, *m?han? (“to low, bellow, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *m?g-, *m?k- (“to low, mumble”). Cognate with Dutch mokken (“to sulk; pout; mope; grumble”), Old High German firmucken (“to be stupid”), Modern German mucksen (“to utter a word; mumble; grumble”), West Frisian mokke (“to mope; sulk; grumble”), Swedish mucka (“to murmur”), dialectal Dutch mokkel (“kiss”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

mock (plural mocks)

1. An imitation, usually of lesser quality.

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2. Mockery, the act of mocking.
3. A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.

   He got a B in his History mock, but improved to an A in the exam.

4. (software engineering) A mockup or prototype.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

mock (third-person singular simple present mocks, present participle mocking, simple past and past participle mocked)

1. To mimic, to simulate.
2. (rare) To create an artistic representation of.
3. To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt.
   • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

     Let not ambition mock their useful toil.

4. To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.
   • 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene III:

     "It is the greene-ey'd Monster, which doth mocke / The meate it feeds on."

   • 1765, Benjamin Heath, A revisal of Shakespear's text, page 563 (a commentary on the "mocke the meate" line from Othello):

     ‘Mock’ certainly never signifies to loath. Its common signification is, to disappoint.

   • 1812, The Critical Review or, Annals of Literature, page 190:

     The French revolution indeed is a prodigy which has mocked the expectations both of its friends and its foes. It has cruelly disappointed the fondest hopes of the first, nor has it observed that course which the last thought that it would have pursued.

5. (software engineering, transitive) To create a mockup or prototype of.

   What's the best way to mock a database layer?

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:mock
• See also Thesaurus:imitate

Derived terms

• mock out
• much-mocked
• mockworthy

Translations

See also

• jeer

Adjective

mock (not comparable)

1. Imitation, not genuine; fake.
   • 1776, United States Declaration of Independence

     For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

Translations

Anagrams

• KCMO

Middle English

Noun

mock

1. Alternative form of muk