different between kid vs twit

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

Originally twite, an aphetism of Middle English atwite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tw?t/, [t?w??t]
• Rhymes: -?t

Verb

twit (third-person singular simple present twits, present participle twitting, simple past and past participle twitted)

1. (transitive) To reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease.
   • 1590, Shakespeare. History of Henry VI, Part II, Act III, Scene I

     "Hath he not twit our sovereign lady here

     With ignominious words, though clerkly couch'd,

     As if she had suborned some to swear

     False allegations to o'erthrow his state? " -

   • 1836, Joanna Baillie, Romiero, Act 3, p.55.

     "Nay, do not twit me now with all the freaks,
     And levities, and gambols charged upon me
     By every lean-faced dame that wears a hood."

   • 1955, Rex Stout, "When a Man Murders...", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 106:

     Mr. Cramer, a policeman, came this morning and twitted me for having let a murderer hoodwink me.

   • 2007, Bernard Porter, "Did He Puff his Crimes to Please a Bloodthirsty Readership?", review of Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal, London Review of Books, 5 April, 29:7, p. 10

     H. R. Fox Bourne, secretary of the Aborigines' Protection Society – often twitted for being an ‘armchair critic’ – wrote in a review of one of Stanley's books […]

   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Folly of Scoffing at Religion

     This […] these scoffers twitted the Christian with.
2. (transitive, computing) To ignore or killfile (a user on a bulletin board system).
   • 1995, "Michelle Jackson", Debutante/Question about Tori Shirts (on newsgroup rec.music.tori-amos)

     However, on the Internet BBS's such as Quartz (now dead), Prism, Monsoon, Sunset, ect^[sic], someone pulling that kind of crap is likely to get flamed quite fast and twitted before he/she can breathe.

   • 2002, "Chris Hoppman", FidoNet Feed Needed (on newsgroup alt.bbs)

     And no, there is no "thought purification program" that can filter out some folks^[sic] obscene ideas that can be expressed w/o written vulgarities. That has to be simply "dealt" with, either by ignoring or twitting the individual that offends habitually.

Translations

Noun

twit (plural twits)

1. A reproach, gibe or taunt.
2. A foolish or annoying person.
   • 1988, Larry Kramer, Just Say No

     What do you mean, since when did I become such a radical fairy? Since I started knowing twits like you, you twit!

3. A euphemism for "twat", a contemptible or stupid person.
   • 2009, David Cameron

     "Too many twits make a twat." He was subsequently pilloried for not knowing that "twat" is actually very rude, and for not realising that one is a euphemism for the other.

     https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jul/29/david-cameron-apology-radio-twitter

4. A person who twitters, i.e. chatters inanely (see usage notes).

Usage notes

In the UK, the word "twit" for a person is usually used in a humorous or affectionate manner.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:fool

Derived terms

• twitling

Translations

Anagrams

• Witt

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twit/

Noun

twit m (plural twits)

1. (Quebec, colloquial) twit (foolish person)
2. a tweet (a message on Twitter)

Synonyms

• (Twitter): tweet

Related terms

• (Twitter): twitter

Spanish

Noun

twit m (plural twits)

1. tweet (message on Twitter)