kid (English) - Vocabulary & GRE App

Direct Cross-Language Association: “Kid” in German

This word also exists in German! Meaning: “(colloquial, chiefly in the plural) kid”

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kid

EN • English

//kɪd//

Direct German Translations & Equivalents:

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[DE]Kitz [DE]Zicklein [DE]Geißlein [DE]Gitzi [DE]spaßen

Verb Conjugation Tables & Inflections

Key Verb Forms & Inflections

Third-person singular (he/she/it):kids

Present Participle (-ing):kidding

Past Participle:kidded

Simple Past:kidded

Definitions & Usage

noun

(informal) A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.

Example: “She's a kid. It's normal for her to have imaginary friends.”

Synonyms:

bairn brat child chit crumb cruncher crumb crusher crumb grinder crumb snatcher

noun

A young goat.

Example: “He treated the oxen like they didn't exist, but he treated the goat kid like a puppy.”

Translations:[DE]Kitz [DE]Zicklein [DE]Geißlein [DE]Gitzi

noun

A young antelope.

Translations:

noun

(dated) A deception; an act of kidding somebody.

noun

(nautical) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.

verb

(transitive, colloquial, usually present participle) To dupe or deceive.

Example: “Are you kidding me?”

Example: “I kid you not!”

verb

(transitive, colloquial, usually present participle) To mock or make a fool of (someone) in a playful way.

Example: “They were always kidding her for her stutter.”

verb

(intransitive, colloquial, usually present participle) To joke.

Example: “You must be kidding!”

Example: “I'm only kidding!”

Translations:[DE]spaßen

verb

(intransitive) Of a goat: to give birth.

Example: “That nanny over there with the white tail has kidded every year for the last five years.”

noun

#10

(UK, dialectal) A seed pod, usually of a leguminous plant.

noun

#11

Synonym of faggot (“bundle of heath and furze”).

Synonyms:

faggot

Notable Literary & Historical Quotes

““So you’ve got the kid,” said Sikes, when they had all reached the room: closing the door as he spoke. ¶ “Yes, here he is,” replied Nancy. ¶ “Did he come quiet?” inquired Sikes. ¶ “Like a lamb,” rejoined Nancy.”

— 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Wherein Oliver Is Delivered over to Mr. William Sikes”, in Oliver Twist; […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 12:

“I said, “I’ll send the first sane soul I meet to keep you company.” As luck would have it, I never met one,—only kids, and a baker, who wouldn’t leave his cart, or take it with him either.”

— 1897 March 13 – June 19, Richard Marsh [pseudonym; Richard Bernard Heldmann], “What the Tidings Were”, in The Beetle (The Adelphi Library; 4), London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, […], published 1920, →OCLC, book IV (In Pursuit), page 269:

“"I should never dream of calling a kid like you a woman," said Digory loftily.”

— 1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC: