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▪ I. kiddy, n.|ˈkɪdɪ|
Also kiddie, Sc. keddie.
[f. kid n.1 + -y4.]
1. A little kid (young goat).
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. May 249 Well heard Kiddie all this sore constraint. 1597Witchcraft in Spald. Club Misc. I. 129 At thy incumming, the keddie lap vpon the. 1810Sporting Mag. XXXV. 30 Our poor kiddy..which died yesterday of the shab.
attrib.1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! iv. (1881) 79 The goats furnished milk and ‘kiddy-pies’.
2. slang. and colloq. A little child. [f. kid n.1 5.]
1889Boldrewood Robbery under Arms xx, They'd heard all kinds of rough talk ever since they was little kiddies. 1892R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads, Route Marchin' iii, While the women and the kiddies sit an' shiver in the carts.
3. Thieves' slang.
a. A professional thief who assumes a ‘flashness’ of dress and manner; one who dresses in a similar style. [cf. kid n.1 5 b.]
1780Tomlinson Slang Past. i, My time, O ye Kiddies, was happily spent. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Kiddy, a thief of the lower order, who..dresses in the extreme of vulgar gentility. 1823Byron Juan xi xvii, Poor Tom was once a kiddy upon town. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. xiv. 362 That such a kiddy should have made his public exit from the Tyburn stage in an embroidered dress..was befitting his ‘exquisite’ nature.
b. A hat of a form fashionable among ‘kiddies’.
1865Lond. Rev. 2 Sept. 241/2 The last fashion being a hat, apparently bred between an archdeaconal and a ‘kiddy’, with a broad ribbon passing in front through a large black buckle.
4. attrib. as adj.:
a. Pertaining to, appropriate to, ‘kiddies’; fashionable among persons of that class.
1805Sporting Mag. XXVI. 56 The horse-dealer..in the kiddy phrase, had both his eyes closed up. 1823in Newcastle Daily Jrnl. (1891) 31 Mar. 3/3 Replete with prime chaunts, rum glees, and kiddy catches. 1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz, Making a Night of it (1850) 164/2 It was his ambition to do something in the celebrated ‘kiddy’ or stage-coach way.
b. Comb., as kiddy brother = kid brother; kiddy car orig. U.S., (a) a small toy car for a child; (b) a perambulator; kiddy sister = kid sister.
1963C. Mackenzie My Life & Times II. 82 That was my *kiddy brother. He's a new boy.
1918Sears, Roebuck Catal. Index, *Kiddy car. 1951I. Shaw Troubled Air xx. 331 There wasn't enough left of the cab to make a kiddie car. 1953Wodehouse Performing Flea 58 You'll hear them call for Mr. Warner's bicycle, Mr. Lasky's kiddie car and Mr. Louis B. Mayer's roller-skates. 1959Times 24 Feb. 13/4 A toy making factory..for the manufacture of fibreglass toys, kiddy cars, and rocking horses. 1973Sci. Amer. Jan. 10/2 The invention by her [sc. Fräulein Gretel Steiff] of the ‘Teddy Bear Doll’ will go down in history with the kiddie car and other things that make life happy for children.
1913C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. i. vii. 103 He also learnt to speak..of..‘my people’ and ‘my *kiddy sister’. 1915A. Bennett Those Twain (1916) i. ix. 159 ‘He's taken a terrific fancy to Maud, my kiddie sister,’ said Daisy. 1963C. Mackenzie My Life & Times II. 60 Still laughing uncontrollably..in a fresh recollection of the face of our kiddy sister and the tone of her voice.
▸ kiddie porn n. colloq. pornographic material which uses images of children.
[1973N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 23 Sept. 8/2 The publishers, well aware of bookstore cash registers, are now producing..what I only half seriously shall call Kiddie Porn: children's sex-education books.] 1977Time 25 Apr. 3/2 If *kiddie porn is so successful, it is because millions of Americans want it, seek it out, pay for it. 1988Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 24 Mar. 15/2 He..said ‘I can help you. Pornography. Kiddy porn, I can get you kiddy porn.’ 2000‘Dr. K.’ Compl. Hacker's Handbk. xii. 162 The only people who disagree with this are some ‘ethical’ crackers who, on discovering a ‘kiddy porn’ site, do their best to destroy it.
▸ kiddies' pool n. (also kiddies pool) orig. N. Amer. = kiddy pool n. at Additions.
1919N.Y. Times 4 July 4 (advt.) Manhattan Beach Baths... *Kiddies' pool..good restaurant..water slide. 1976Times Herald Rec. (Middletown, N.Y.) 5 Aug. 5 d (advt.) Kiddies pools. Three sizes to choose. 2006Sun (Nexis) 4 Nov. The complex has two huge pools—one Olympic-sized for the serious swimmers and a huge kiddies' pool with slides.
▸ kiddy pool n. orig. and chiefly N. Amer. a (shallow) swimming pool for children; a wading pool.
1919N.Y. Times 30 Aug. 4/1 (advt.) Attractions... A *kiddy pool 100 ft. long. 1960Van Nuys (Calif.) News 12 May 17 b (advt.) Here's a durable 2-ring kiddie pool 41" x 7" that will bring joy to any child. 2003Today's Parent (Electronic ed.) June 153 After they child-proofed the balcony.., they outfitted it with a little kiddie pool and toy box.
▪ II. kiddy, v. slang.|ˈkɪdɪ|
[Cf. prec. and kid v.4]
trans. To hoax, humbug, take in (a person).
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 462 (Hoppe) There they met with beggars who kiddied them on to the lurk. a1864Dickens (Webster), Some of the swell mob..so far kiddied us as to hire a horse and shay, start away from London by Whitechapel, and..come into Epsom from the opposite direction,..while we were waiting for them at the rail. |