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▪ I. kid, n.1|kɪd|
Forms: 3–5 kide, 4–5 kyde, kede; 4–6 kyd(de, (5 kydd), 4–7 kidde, 4– kid.
[ME. kide, kede, kid, commonly regarded as ad. ON. kið (Sw., Da. kid):—OTeut. *kiðjom, related to G. kitz, kitze from OHG. chizzî, kizzîn:—OTeut. *kittîn from orig. *kiðnīn.
The final -e of ME. kĭde is not explicable from ON. kið, but the initial k makes it still more difficult to refer the word to any OE. type.]
1. a. The young of a goat (cf. quot. 1562).
c1200Ormin 7804 Þe firrste callf, þe firrste lamb, þe firrste kide, and swillke. c1250Gen. & Ex. 1535 Two kides he fette and brogt es hire. a1300Cursor M. 3672 (Gött.) Iacob went in to þe fold, And broght þe kiddes. 1382Wyclif Exod. xxiii. 19 A kydde. c1386Chaucer Miller's T. 74 She koude skippe and make game As any kyde [v. rr. kede, kid(e] or calf folwynge his dame. 1450–80tr. Secreta Secret. 32 Kedis, lambis, and geldid shepe. 1562W. Bullein Bk. Simples (1579) 75 They remaine Kiddes for six monethes, and afterward..be called Goates. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. vi. 14 Leaping like wanton kids in pleasant Spring. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 344 Sporting the Lion rampd, and in his paw Dandl'd the Kid. 1720Gay Poems (1745) I. 78 Neither lamb nor kid nor calf..Dance like Buxoma. 1887Bowen Virg. Eclogue i. 23 Puppies resembled the hound, and the kids their mother the goat.
†b. A young roe-deer during its first year. Obs.
So G. kitz in various districts (Bavaria, Tyrol, etc.); cf. OHG. rêchkizzi, MHG. rêchkitze.
1486Bk. St. Albans E iv, Iff ye of the Roobucke will knaw..The first yere he is a kyde soukyng on his dame. [Hence in Turberville (1576), Manwood (1598), and later writers.]15972nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. ii. v. 891 The Roa-bucke is the first yeare a Kid, the second yeare a Girle, the third yeare a Hemuse. 1891C. Wise Rockingham Castle 152.
c. A young antelope.
1884Harper's Mag. Aug. 365/2 There are five of them [antelopes]—two bucks, a doe, and two kids.
2. The flesh of a young goat.
c1430Two Cookery-bks. 13 Take Vele, Kyde, or Henne, an boyle hem in fayre Water. 1547Boorde Introd. Knowl. xvi. (1870) 274 Yonge Kyddes flesshe is praysed aboue all other flesshe..Olde kydde is not praysed. 1888Harper's Mag. June 82/2 Our attendants now produced some kid and dried dates, which..formed our meal.
3. a. The skin of a kid. b. Leather made from kid-skins, or from lamb-skins, or other substitutes; chiefly used in the manufacture of gloves and shoes; pl. gloves (or boots) made of this leather.
1677Grew Anat. Fruits vi. §9 Having as it were, only a Coat of Kid, but this of good thick Buff. 1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2124/4 Stolen.., about 350 of the best Kids, some ready pared, and some in the Crust. 1837Thackeray Ravenswing iv, His..hands are encased in lemon-coloured kids. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xxxix, A figure..tall and physically impressive even in his kid and kerseymere. 1891N. Gould Doub. Event 151 A pair of yellow kids on his delicate hands.
4. sing. or pl. (Rendering L. hædus or hædi.) A pair of small stars in the constellation Auriga, represented as kids held in the hand of the charioteer. Cf. kid-star below.
1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xix. ix. 134 Considering it grew toward the end of Autumne, and the starre named the Kids were risen. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 206 The setting Kid, sad Hyads, he safe sees.
5. slang.
a. A child, esp. a young child. (Originally low slang, but by the 19th c. frequent in familiar speech.)
[1599Massinger, etc. Old Law iii. ii, I am old, you say, Yes, parlous old, kids, an you mark me well!] 1690D'Urfey Collin's Walk iv. 183 At her Back a Kid that cry'd, Still as she pinch'd it, fast was ty'd. 1719― Pills (1872) II. 193 Send your kid home to me, I will take care on 't. 1841Ld. Shaftesbury Jrnl. 16 Aug. in Life (1886) I. ix. 347 Passed a few days happily with my wife and kids. 1861Morris in Mackail Life (1899) i. 161 Janey and kid are both very well. 1894Mrs. E. Lynn Linton One too Many I. vi. 132 The mother cannot live, and the poor little kid must have gone to the workhouse.
b. In low sporting or criminal circles: A term of admiration for an expert young thief, pugilist, etc.
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Kid,..particularly applied to a boy who commences thief at an early age; and when by his dexterity he has become famous, he is called by his acquaintances the kid so and so. 1820Sporting Mag. VI. 79 The heavy torrents of rain informed the kids upon opening their peepers, that the game would again be put to the test. 1823Bee Dict. Turf. s.v., People who imagine that all kids are thieves—carry the joke too far. 1834H. Ainsworth Rookwood (Farmer), Two milling coves..Vere backed to fight for heavy stake; But..Both kids agreed to play a cross.
†c. In American Colonies (see quots.) Obs. (Cf. kidnap.)
1724H. Jones Virginia 53 The Ships..often call at Ireland to victual, and bring over frequently white Servants, which are of three Kinds... 2. Such as come bound by Indenture, commonly call'd Kids, who are usually to serve four or five Years. 1895J. C. Baleagh White Servit. Virginia 34 The class of so-called ‘Kids’ was supplemented by a smaller class of persons who went on agreements for fixed wages for a definite time.
d. A young man or woman. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1884Cheyenne (Wyoming) Sun 3 Nov. 3/1 There were some strange pranks played by the Cheyenne ‘Kids’ on the occasion of the ‘Halloween’. 1896Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 15 Aug. 15 We have discovered a kid without a law practice and have decided to run him for attorney general. 1926J. Black You can't Win iv. 26 I'll tell you what I'll do with you, kid. 1949N.Y. Times 9 Oct. 50/3 A kid [sc. a college freshman] from anywhere immediately feels that he belongs to a great family. 1955J. D. MacDonald Brass Cupcake v. 46 Kathy came into my office... I spoke out of the corner of my mouth. ‘We can't talk here, kid.’ 1974N. Freeling Dressing of Diamond 127 You got to learn. That's a kid's job. Make yourself useful.
6. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 1) kid-fell, kid-flesh, kid-leather (also attrib.), kid-milk; kid-like adj.; kid brother orig. U.S., one's younger brother; kid-brush, a soft brush used in the process of finishing goatskins; † kid-crow [crew n.2], a pen for kids; † kid-fox, ? a young fox (in quot. fig.); kid sister orig. U.S., one's younger sister; kid-star = sense 4; kid (also kid's, kids') stuff colloq. (orig. U.S.), something suitable for children; a very simple or trivial task, etc. Also kid-glove, -skin.
1895J. L. Williams Princeton Stories 143 The evenings would pass pleasantly enough in fighting with Helen, his married sister, across the table, and in guying his *kid brother. 1941Penguin New Writing IX. 106 She..lived with her parents and kid brother in Kennington. 1971B. Cobb I fell among Thieves iii. 39 He was the kid-brother whom I helped as far as I could, seeing that we had no mother.
1885C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather xxxii. 532 The skins..are then wet over with gum-water and brushed with a very soft brush, called a ‘*kid-brush’.
1669Worlidge Syst. Agric., Dict. Rust. (1681) 328 A *Kid-crow, a place for a sucking Calf to lye in.
1346in Riley Mem. London (1868) 234 [For the hundred skins of] hyndes⁓calves, 8s.; *kiddefelles 8s. 1436Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 160 Wolle, wadmole, gotefel, kydefel also.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 95 Good fleisch, as motoun of a weþer, *kide fleisch sowkynge.
1599Shakes. Much Ado ii. iii. 44 The musicke ended, Wee'll fit the *kid-foxe with a penny worth.
1687Congreve Old Bach. iv. viii, The daughters only tore two pair of *kid-leather gloves with trying them on. 1851Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 581 Ladies' and gentlemen's coloured kid gloves,..Kid leather gloves..manufactured from French dressed kid skins.
1881Trollope Ayala's Angel I. vii. 85 Then Ayala did go away, escaping by some *kid-like manoeuvre among the ruins.
1920F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise (1921) I. i. 36, I let people impose on me..entertain their *kid sisters. 1939‘N. Blake’ Smiler with Knife xi. 159 His manner towards them was affectionate, teasing, whimsical... They might have been his kid sisters just out of the schoolroom. 1962‘M. Innes’ Connoisseur's Case xiv. 172, I don't sound a very nice kid sister. But I'm quite fond of him.
1866Conington æneid ix. 314 The *Kid-star lowering overhead.
1929F. D. Brooks Psychol. Adolescence xviii. 605 The little fellow looked at the book a minute,..and in a very caustic, critical manner sneered, ‘*Kid stuff.’ 1959J. Braine Vodi ii. 39 He only had to say, ‘Bloody nonsense’ or ‘Kid's stuff, Coverack’ and close his ears to Tom. 1962L. Deighton Ipcress File xxi. 141 Communists..won't be using kids' stuff like this bomb. 1967Spectator 7 July 9/3 One addiction specialist described it [sc. marijuana] to me contemptuously as ‘kid-stuff’. 1974M. Babson Stalking Lamb viii. 50 I've taught you the only system that makes real money... Anything else is just kids' stuff.
Add:[6.] kidflick slang (orig. U.S.) [flick n.1 1 e], a cinematographic or video film for children; = *kidvid below.
1977Time 22 Aug. 43/3 Even the Disney studios are joining the sci-fi follies with a new *kid flick titled The Cat from Outer Space. 1980N.Y. Times 1 Oct. c19/1 It's never..embarrassingly moving in the schmaltzy way of such slick Hollywood kidflicks as ‘Paper Moon’. 1987Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 7 June 33/1 One of the latest kidflicks to hit town, this joust in the ongoing war between teenagers and grown-ups takes place amid the prejudices of a small country town.
kidvid slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.) [vid, abbrev. of video n.], a television programme or video made for children; also collect., children's broadcasting or programming generally.
1955M. Reifer Dict. New Words 116/2 *Kidvid,..a children's television broadcast. 1969TV Guide (U.S.) 29 Nov. 10/1 What kinds of programs would satisfy the social scientists..who are unhappy about the current state of ‘kidvid’ in the United States? 1971Variety 3 Feb. 31/5 The CBS-TV o&os would have little choice but to carry the projected weekday afternoon kidvid. 1985Fortune 15 Apr. 130/3 She's bringing a new, nonviolent, Disney-created cartoon series..to NBC's kidvid schedule. 1991J. Menick Lingo v. 77 He continually dipped into everything else, from soap operas to nature shows, from kidvid to live operas.
▸ colloq. (chiefly N. Amer.). Freq. with capital initials. The—— Kid: (a nickname for) a person (esp. a criminal or athlete) identified with, characterized by, or known for being——. Cf. sense 5b.
1828P. Egan Boxiana (New Ser.) I. 188 The Lively Kid met with a stopper to his rush on the nob. 1897Galveston (Texas) Daily News 25 Mar. 3/6 Mike Crummer, the ‘Colorado Kid’.. died at 6 o'clock to-night from the effect of his wounds. 1907H. C. Fisher in San Francisco Examiner 27 Nov. 8 (comic strip) Ain't I the hard luck kid? Only $12 left. 1931‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route iii. 36 Usually the younger hobos have..‘kid’ included in whatever monicker may be attached to them; thus we have the ‘Yellow Kid’, or the ‘Slim Kid’. 1974Los Angeles Times 20 Sept. iii. 1/1 When you get beat six games to love, it's called ‘The Bagel’... It used to happen to me a lot, so I called myself The Bagel Kid. 2002Maclean's (Electronic ed.) 4 Mar. 42 The heartbreak kids were relegated to another Olympic fourth place.
▸ Eng. regional (chiefly north-west.). our (also are) kid: one's (younger) brother; (also occas.) any close, usually younger, relative. Freq. as a form of address. Cf. our adj. 2b.
1920P. Green Our Kid 7 Nobody ever addresses him or refers to him by any other title than that of our kid. 1925Times 21 May 13/5 Harry Pollard, a carter, said he saw six men approach Plommer, and heard Lawrence Fowler say to him, ‘You have done our kid, and we are going to do you.’ 1966F. Shaw et al. Lern Yerself Scouse 26 Are kid, my brother. Possibly senior to speaker, and of any age. In juvenile disputes the threat, ‘Ile fetch are kid on to yer!’ is a more effective deterrent than might at first appear. 1995K. Atkinson Behind Scenes at Museum (1996) iii. 80 Our cousin..treats Gillian like a pet and whenever she gets too annoying for the grown-ups says things like, ‘Come here, our kid,’ in her thick Doncaster accent. 2003G. Mitchell Loyal Women iv. 37 That's where you get your looks from our kid. I mean it. You're a great-looking girl—a real heart breaker.
▪ II. kid, n.2 Now dial.|kɪd|
Forms: 4–5 kidde, 5 kyd, 5–6 kydde, kyde, 7 kidd, 5– kid.
[Of unknown origin: W. cedys pl., faggots (sing. cedysen) is prob. from English.]
A faggot or bundle of twigs, brushwood, gorse, etc., used either for burning, or for embedding in a bank, beach, or muddy bottom to give firmness to loose soil, to stop shingle or sand from shifting, etc.
a1350St. Matthew 354 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 136 Sone he gert ordayn a fire Of kiddes and brandes birnand schire. c1440Promp. Parv. 274/1 Kyd, fagot, fassis. 1485Nottingham Rec. III. 230 For fellyng of wodde..þat þe kyddes were made of. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §135 Than the vnder bowes wolde be cut away, and made kyddes thereof. 1611Markham Countr. Content. i. xvi. (1668) 77 Shake down into the bottom of your Ponds good long Kids or Faggots of brush-wood. 1795Trans. Soc. Arts XIII. 151 The plants are supplied with much nourishment from the decay of the Kids in which they were planted. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 31 The woodman..bent away home with his kid on his back. 1851Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XII. ii. 352 Many are allowed to grow up bushy for the purpose of making long faggots or kids.
b. attrib. and Comb., as kid-bearer, kid-faggot, kid-pile, kid-stack, kid-wood; † kid-helm, a faggot-shed.
1477in York Myst. (1885) Introd. 21 note, Kidberers, Garthyners, erthe wallers,..ground wallers with erthe. 1501Searchers Verdict in Surtees Misc. (1888) 22 Ather of theym shall have theyr esyng drop upon other..yat is to wit ye said Ric' Thornton for his kid helme upon ye tenement or ground of ye said William Whyte. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §134 To sell..the great woode by it self, and the kydde woode by it selfe. 1653Manchester Crt. Leet Rec. (1887) IV. 105 No gorse Stacks or Kid-stackes should bee sett within or neare the houses in Towne. 1886S.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., ‘The rats find harbour undernean the kid-stack’.
▪ III. kid, n.3 south. dial.|kɪd|
[Related to cod n.1, perh. representing an OE. *cydde (:—*kuddjo-).]
A seed-pod of a leguminous plant; sometimes used of other seed-vessels.
a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 95 Kid, a pod. 1744–50W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. VII. ii. 98 [The seed of hornbeam] grows in kids or keys like the ash. 1776[see kid v.3]. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (1807) II. 81 The ripening of the beans is shewn by the pods or kids turning of a black colour. 1881Isle of Wight Gloss., Kids, pods of peas, beans, and vetches.
▪ IV. kid, n.4|kɪd|
[? variant of kit n.1]
1. A small wooden tub for domestic use; esp. a sailor's mess-tub.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Corbeillon, a small kid, or tub, to contain the biscuit..distributed to the several messes. 1833Marryat P. Simple xii, One of the ship's boys going forward with a kid of dirty water to empty in the head. 1873Act 36 & 37 Vict. c. 88 Sched. i, A greater quantity of mess tubs or kids than are requisite for the use of the crew.
2. A pannier or basket for rubbish. dial.
1847–78Halliwell Dict.
3. A box or wooden pen constructed on the deck of a fishing-vessel to receive fish as they are caught (U.S.).
1890in Century Dict.
Hence ˈkidful, as much as a kid will hold.
1811W. Marshall Review III. 111 (E.D.D.) A kidful of the thick water.
▪ V. kid, n.5 slang.|kɪd|
[f. kid v.4]
Humbug, ‘gammon’. In colloq. phr. no kid, no kidding, I am not kidding.
1873Slang Dict. 207 ‘No kid, now?’ is a question often asked by a man who thinks he is being hoaxed. 1876Hindley Cheap Jack 64 (Farmer) One of these brother boys was well-known for his kid, that is gammon and devilry. 1880Punch Dec., 'Arry. My gloves was the cheese no kid. 1894G. Moore Esther Waters 18, I should think the trial was at three-quarters of the mile. The mile was so much kid. 1899R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. xxiii. 234 He do seem to enjoy hisself, no kid! 1916J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee i. 14, I tell you, Nelly, she's a woman as will blaze a track right enough, no kid. 1922Joyce Ulysses 418 Got a prime pair of mincepies, no kid. 1964Amer. Folk Music Occasional i. 91 True story, no kid.
▪ VI. † kid, kyd, ppl. a. Obs.
Also 3–4 kud(de, 4 ked.
[pa. pple. of kithe v.]
Made known, mentioned, declared, renowned; well-known; famous; notorious: see also kithe v. 5. (Freq. in alliterative poetry.)
a1225Ancr. R. 342 Habbeð..to ower bihoue, þesne lutle laste ende, of alle kudde and kuðe sunnen. 1340–70Alisaunder 556 Whan his menskfull menne might nought fynde Hur ked King in Egipt, carefull þei were. c1350Will. Palerne 111 Þe kud king of spayne was kindely his fader. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xliii. (Cecile) 393 Iubitere..þe name of a murtherere & of a kyd houlloure. a1400Morte Arth. 65 Aftyre at Carlelele a Cristynmese he haldes, This ilke kyde conquerour. a1400–50Alexander 1229 Caulus, an other knyght on a ked stede. c1400Destr. Troy 2124 Knightes in our cuntre kyddist in Armys. c1425Wyntoun Cron. ii. v. 388 Threpyt thai ware spyis Or to the kyng kyd innymys. 15..Proph. Merling in Whole Proph. Scot. (1603), He shall be kid conquerour, for he is kende Lord, Of all Bretaine that bounds to the broad Sea. [1875J. A. H. Murray Thomas of Erceldoune Introd. 28 The belief in the ‘kyd conqueror’ yet to come must have cheered the Cumbrian Britons during the long struggle.]
▪ VII. kid, v.1|kɪd|
[f. kid n.1 Cf. Norw. kia (= *kida).]
a. trans. To give birth to (a kid).
b. intr. To bring forth a kid or kids. Hence ˈkidding vbl. n. Also attrib.
c1400Master of Game iv. (MS. Digby 182) Þan þe femell [the doe]..goþe to kydde hir kiddes fer þens. Ibid., Men shulde leue hem þe femels..into þe tyme þat þei haue kiddede. 1528Paynel Salerne's Regim. G ij, Mylke of a gootte, nat to nere kyddynge tyme..shulde be chosen. 1611Cotgr., Chevreter, to kid, or bring forth yong kids. Ibid., Chevreté, kidded, fallen as a young kid. 1614Markham Cheap Husb. iv. v. (1668) 98 Goats above all other cattle are troubled with hardness in kidding. 1756Phil. Trans. XLIX. 802 They found the goat was kidding by its cries. 1842Marryat Masterman Ready II. 72 He had brought with him the other goat, which had kidded during the storm.
▪ VIII. kid, v.2 Now dial.|kɪd|
Also 6 kydde.
[f. kid n.2]
trans. a. To bind up (brushwood, etc.) in kids or faggots; also absol. to make faggots. b. To secure (loose soil, etc.) by means of kids.
1504in Nottingham Rec. III. 315 Item payd vnto Stubley..for feling..and kyddyng for a dey..viijd. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §132 Kydde the smal bowes & set them on ende. 1664Evelyn Sylva (1776) 514 Set apart the largest for the Wheelwright, the smallest for the Cooper..and the brush to be kidded. 1814W. Marshall Review IV. 161 (E.D.D.) The refuse is kidded up for the bakers. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., Kid,..(2) to use faggots for staithing, or for securing sod walls against the attacks of rabbits. 1886S.W. Linc. Gloss., s.v., He is kidding all the winter. 1897R. E. G. Cole Hist. Doddington 149 Labourers..paring the sods and ‘kidding’ many hundreds of gorse ‘kids’.
Hence ˈkidding vbl. n. Also concr. kids used to secure loose soil, etc.; work in which kids are used.
1504[see above]. 1566in Harwood Lichfield (1806) 526 Payd, for choppynge the asshes, and kydding of the same,—ijs. xd. 1799A. Young Agric. Linc. 383, 2½ miles kidding at a kidd a yard. 1864Faversham Merc. 13 Feb., A small length of kidding..necessary at the west side of the creek.
▪ IX. kid, v.3 south. dial.|kɪd|
[f. kid n.3 (If it were an old word, it might go back to an OE. *cyddan:—*kuddjan, f. *kuddo-z, whence OE. cod(d, cod n.1).]
intr. Of plants: To form pods (chiefly with advs.). Hence ˈkidding vbl. n.
1677Plot Oxfordsh. 242 [It] seldom fails of a good burthen, though sometimes it doth not kid very well. 1776T. Bowden Farm. Direct. 53 If the vetches are not cut green..many farmers allow them to stand till they kid and the kids begin to fill. 1883Hampsh. Gloss. s.v., ‘They beans have kidded uncommon well’.
▪ X. kid, v.4 slang.|kɪd|
[perh. f. kid n.1 in sense ‘make a kid of’; cf. kiddy v.; also cod v.3]
trans. To hoax, humbug, try to make (one) believe what is not true. Also, to joke with, tease. Also intr. or absol., and const. along or on; freq. in phr. no kidding, I am not kidding; that is the truth. Hence ˈkidding vbl. n.; ˈkidder2, one who hoaxes or humbugs; also, one who jokes or teases.
1811Lex. Bal., Kid, to coax or wheedle... To amuse a man or divert his attention while another robs him. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict. s.v. Kid-rig, To kid a person out of any⁓thing, is to obtain it from him by means of a false pretence. 1839H. Brandon in W. A. Miles Poverty, Mendicity & Crime 163/2 Kidding on, to entice one on. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 473 (Farmer) He kids them on by promising three times more than the things are worth. 1879Macm. Mag. XL. 505, I thought they was only kidding (deceiving) at first. 1888Sporting Life 15 Dec. 3/2 The champion kidder. 1891J. Newman Scamping Tricks xi. 88 [He] was a beautiful kidder and could patter sweet and pretty. 1895Daily News 27 Nov. 2/5 The prisoner had told him that since he had been in Holloway he had ‘kidded’ the doctor into the belief that he was insane, and that he intended to ‘kid’ the judge. 1899Ade Fables in Slang 84 They wanted a..Name.., so the Side-Show-Announcer, who was something of a Kidder..gave them Zoroaster. 1901[see down and out adj. phr.]. 1903G. B. Shaw Man & Superman ii. 70 Garn! youre kiddin. 1906S. Ford Shorty McCabe xiii. 273 I'll stand for all the private kidding you can hand out. 1914E. E. Cummings Let. 27 July (1969) 9 There's a dead monkey-fish hard by the boat club... No kidding! 1916C. J. Dennis Moods of Ginger Mick 89, I can see ole Ginger..Grinnin' a bit to kid 'is wound don't pain. 1920S. Lewis in Sat. Even. Post 11 Dec. 11/2 The boss ain't such a bad pill if you know how to kid him along. 1922Wodehouse Clicking of Cuthbert ix. 223 ‘Mr Winklethorpe told me I was very good with the wooden clubs,’ she said defiantly. ‘He's a great kidder,’ said Ramsden. 1928D. L. Sayers Lord Peter views Body 287 Really? No kidding? 1932J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan iv. 154 ‘You wouldn't fool us, Gov'nor, would you?’ kidded Johnny. Studs thought it wasn't every guy who could kid with his old man, like Johnny could. 1936J. L. Hodson Our Two Englands vi. 103 ‘No, we don't even get kidded (chaffed) for doin' the housework any more,’ a man of thirty told me. 1947W. Stevens Let. 20 Aug. (1967) 565 Next to the passion flower I love fuchsias, and no kidding. 1952‘J. Tey’ Singing Sands xii. 205 ‘I'm a policeman.’ ‘No kidding!’ 1959Times 27 June 7/7 If the Australian had not..‘kidded himself along’,..then his heart might have broken. 1963J. N. Harris Weird World Wes Beattie (1964) xvii. 196 Mr. Herbert Jackson was known as a real salesman, a man with personality, a great kidder, a hot sport and a number of other things. 1969Listener 9 Jan. 34/3 Mrs O'Hare has, of course, come in for a lot of kidding and wry jokes. 1969New Yorker 30 Jan. 18/3 We asked some reclining youths where the Festival was, and they pointed across a vast valley to some tiny lights... ‘You're kidding!’.. We sank to the grass. 1974Titbits 30 May 22/4, I have always known I was impotent but kidded myself that if I could find the right wife everything would miraculously become O.K.
▪ XI. kid
obs. f. kith; pa. tense and pple. of kithe. |