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teenager
English
Alternative forms
- teen-ager
Etymology
teenage +? -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ti?n?e?.d??(?)/
Noun
teenager (plural teenagers)
- A person between 13 and 19 years of age; an adolescent.
Descendants
- ? Danish: teenager
- ? French: teenager
- ? Japanese: ???????? (t?n?j?)
- ? Spanish: teenager
Translations
Anagrams
- generate, green tea, renegate
Danish
Etymology
From English teenager.
Noun
teenager c (definite singular teenageren, indefinite plural teenagere or teenagers, definite plural teenagerne)
- a teenager
References
- “teenager” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From English teenager.
Noun
teenager m or f (plural teenagers)
- teenager
Spanish
Etymology
From English teenager.
Noun
teenager m or f (plural teenagers or teenager)
- teenager (a person between 13 and 19 years of age)
- Synonym: adolescente
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kid
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)
- 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.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe: Friday's Education,
- Of a female goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid.
- 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.
- (uncountable) The meat of a young goat.
- Synonym: cabrito
- A young antelope.
- (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.
- (informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area.
- (informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
- (in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
- (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.
- 2007 June 3, Eben Moglen, speech, Freeing the Mind: Free Software and the end of proprietary culture,
- (dated) A deception; an act of kidding somebody.
- (nautical) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cooper to this entry?)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
kid (third-person singular simple present kids, present participle kidding, simple past and past participle kidded)
- (transitive, colloquial) To make a fool of (someone).
- (transitive, colloquial) To dupe or deceive (someone).
- (transitive, colloquial) To make a joke with (someone).
- (intransitive) Of a goat, to give birth to kids.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To joke.
Translations
See also
- suede
- kid on
Etymology 2
Compare Welsh cidysen.
Noun
kid (plural kids)
- A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)
References
Further reading
- kid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- IDK, idk
French
Etymology
English kid
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kid/
Noun
kid m (plural kids)
- (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
- 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)
- 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)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 1917; superseded by kje
Sikaritai
Noun
kid
- 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
- a young deer
Declension
Volapük
Noun
kid (nominative plural kids)
- kiss
Declension
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