kid
English
/kɪd/
noun
Definitions
- A young goat.
- Of a female goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid.
- Kidskin.
- (uncountable) The meat of a young goat.
- A young antelope.
- (informal) A child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile.
- (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.
- (dated) A deception; an act of kidding somebody.
- (nautical) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English kide derived from Old Norse kið (kid, young goat, goatling) derived from Proto-Germanic *kidją (kid, goatling) derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaidn-, *gidʰ- (goatling, kid, little goat).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gidʰ-
Gloss
goatling, kid, little goat
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cyberkid English
- every English
- everykid English
- fic English
- fucker English
- fur English
- furkid English
- grandkid English
- great-grandkid English
- kidder English
- kiddish English
- kiddo English
- kiddom English
- kidfic English
- kidfucker English
- kidhood English
- kidkind English
- kidless English
- kidlessness English
- kidlet English
- kidlike English
- kidling English
- kidlit English
- kidly English
- kidology English
- kidpic English
- kidproof English
- kidren English
- kidsicle English
- kidskin English
- kidsman English
- kidspeak English
- kidvid English
- kidz English
- lit English
- man English
- merkid English
- pic English
- rich English
- rich-kid English
- school English
- schoolkid English
- skin English
- snow English
- snowkid English
- stepkid English
- superkid English
- transkid English
- vid English
- vidkid English
- wonder English
- wonderkid English
- Kitz German
- Rehkitz German
- scion French
- *gidʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʰaidn- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʰaydn- Proto-Indo-European
- *seǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- kid Norwegian Bokmål
- kje Norwegian Bokmål
- *kidją Proto-Germanic
- kje Norwegian Nynorsk
- kide Middle English
- sion Middle English
- kið Old Norse
- kiðlingr Old Norse
- kid Danish
- cion Old French
- kið Icelandic
- kacarroj Albanian
- kedh Albanian
- kiþ Old Swedish
- kill Westrobothnian
- *kithō Frankish
- *kiþ Frankish
- *kīþō Frankish
- *kadza Proto-Albanian
- fur
- vid
- lit
- fic
- pic
- man
- rich
- skin
- snow
- kidz
- kidly
- kiddo
- every
- wonder
- furkid
- merkid
- kiddom
- kidvid
- kidder
- kidfic
- kidren
- kidpic
- school
- vidkid
- fucker
- kidlit
- kidlet
- kidkind
- kidless
- kidskin
- kidhood
- kidling
- snowkid
- stepkid
- kidlike
- kidsman
- kiddish
- kidproof
- grandkid
- kidspeak
- superkid
- rich-kid
- transkid
- cyberkid
- everykid
- kidology
- kidsicle
- schoolkid
- wonderkid
- kidfucker
- kidlessness
- great-grandkid