c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 13 Take Vele, Kyde, or Henne, an boyle hem in fayre Water.

1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xvi. sig. J.i Yonge Kyddes flesshe is praysed aboue all other flesshe..Olde kydde is not praysed.

1888 Harper's Mag. June 82/2 Our attendants now produced some kid and dried dates, which..formed our meal.

1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. iii. vi. 190 Having as it were, only a Coat of Kid, but this of good thick Buff.

1686 London Gaz. No. 2124/4 Stolen.., about 350 of the best Kids, some ready pared, and some in the Crust.

1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing iv, in Fraser's Mag. June 728/1 His..hands..are encased in lemon-coloured kids.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxix. 151 A figure..tall and physically impressive even in his kid and kerseymere.

1891 N. Gould Double Event 151 A pair of yellow kids on his delicate hands.

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xix. ix. 134 Considering it grew toward the end of Autumne, and the starre named the Kids were risen.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 206 The setting Kid, sad Hyads, he safe sees.

1895 J. 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.

1941 Penguin New Writing 9 106 She..lived with her parents and kid brother in Kennington.

1971 B. 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.

1885 C. 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’.

1681 J. Worlidge Dictionarium Rusticum in Systema Agriculturæ (ed. 3) A Kid-crow, a place for a sucking Calf to lye in.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 41 The musique ended, Weele fit the kid-foxe with a penny worth.

1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. i. 38 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.

1866 J. Conington tr. Virgil Æneid ix. 314 The Kid-star lowering overhead.

1929 F. 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.’

1959 J. Braine Vodi ii. 39 He only had to say, ‘Bloody nonsense’ or ‘Kid's stuff, Coverack’ and close his ears to Tom.

1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File xxi. 141 Communists..won't be using kids' stuff like this bomb.

1967 Spectator 7 July 9/3 One addiction specialist described it [sc. marijuana] to me contemptuously as ‘kid-stuff’.

1974 M. Babson Stalking Lamb viii. 50 I've taught you the only system that makes real money... Anything else is just kids' stuff.

1828 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. I. 188 The Lively Kid met with a stopper to his rush on the nob.

1897 Galveston (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.

1907 H. 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’.

1974 Los 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.

2002 Maclean's (Electronic ed.) 4 Mar. 42 The heartbreak kids were relegated to another Olympic fourth place.

1920 P. Green Our Kid 7 Nobody ever addresses him or refers to him by any other title than that of our kid.

1925 Times 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.’

1966 F. 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.

1995 K. 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.

2003 G. 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.

a1350 St. Matthew 354 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 136 Sone he gert ordayn a fire Of kiddes and brandes birnand schire.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 274/1 Kyd, fagot, fassis.

1485 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 230 For fellyng of wodde..þat þe kyddes were made of.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xliiii Than the vnder bowes wolde be cut away and made kyddes therof.

1631 G. Markham Country Contentments (ed. 4) i. xvi. 99 Stake down into the bottomes of your Ponds good long Kids or Faggots of brush-woods.

1795 Trans. Soc. Arts 13 151 The plants are supplied with much nourishment from the decay of the Kids in which they were planted.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 31 The woodman..bent away home with his kid on his back.

1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 352 Many are allowed to grow up bushy for the purpose of making long faggots or kids.

1501 Searchers 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.

a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 95 Kid, a pod.

1742 W. Ellis Timber-tree Improved (ed. 3) II. xiv. 98 [The seed of witch-elm] grows in Kids or Keys like, the ash or Maple.

1776 T. Bowden Farmer's Director 53 If the vetches are not cut green..many farmers allow them to stand till they kid and the kids begin to fill.

1807 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (new ed.) II. 81 The ripening of the beans is shewn by the pods or kids turning of a black colour.

1881 H. Smith & C. R. Smith Isle of Wight Words Kids, pods of peas, beans, and vetches.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Corbeillon, a small kid, or tub, to contain the biscuit..distributed to the several messes.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xii. 154 One of the ship's boys going forward with a kid of dirty water to empty in the head.

1873 Act 36 & 37 Victoria c. 88 Sched. i A greater quantity of mess tubs or kids than are requisite for the use of the crew.

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words

1890 in Cent. Dict.

1811 W. Marshall Rev. Rep. to Board Agric. from Eastern Dept. Eng. 111 (E.D.D.) A kidful of the thick water.

1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 207 ‘No kid, now?’ is a question often asked by a man who thinks he is being hoaxed.

1876 W. Green & C. Hindley Life & Adventures Cheap Jack 64 (Farmer) One of these brother boys was well-known for his kid, that is gammon and devilry.

1880 Punch Dec. 'Arry. My gloves was the cheese no kid.

1894 G. Moore Esther Waters 18 I should think the trial was at three-quarters of the mile. The mile was so much kid.

1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. xxiii. 234 He do seem to enjoy hisself, no kid!

1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee i. 14 I tell you, Nelly, she's a woman as will blaze a track right enough, no kid.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 404 Got a prime pair of mincepies, no kid.

1964 Amer. Folk Music Occas. No. 1. 91 True story, no kid.

a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 155 Habbeð..to ower bihoue þesne lutle laste ende. of alle kudde & kuðe sunnen.

1340–70 Alisaunder 556 Whan his menskfull menne might nought fynde Hur ked King in Egipt, carefull þei were.

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 111 Þe kud king of spayne was kindely his fader.

a1400–50 Alexander 1229 Caulus, an other knyght on a ked stede.

?a1400 Morte Arth. 65 Aftyre at Carlelele a Cristynmese he haldes, This ilke kyde conquerour.

c1425 Wyntoun Cron. ii. v. 388 Threpyt thai ware spyis Or to the kyng kyd innymys.

c1480 (a1400) St. Cecilia 393 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 379 Iubitere..þe name of a murtherere & of a kyd houlloure.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 2124 Knightes in our cuntre kyddist in Armys.

1603 Prophecie of Merling in Whole Prophesie Scotl. sig. A7 He shall be kid conquerour, for he is kinde Lord, Of all Bretaine that bounds to the broad Sea.

1875 J. 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.]

1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. G ij Mylke of a gootte, nat to nere kyddynge tyme..shulde be chosen.

1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry (1668) iv. v. 98 Goats above all other cattle are troubled with hardness in kidding.

1566 in T. Harwood Hist. Lichfield (1806) 526 Payd, for choppynge the asshes, and kydding of the same,—ijs. xd.

1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 383 2½ miles kidding at a kidd a yard.

1864 Faversham Merc. 13 Feb. A small length of kidding..necessary at the west side of the creek.

1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 242 [It] seldom fails of a good burthen, though sometimes it doth not kid very well.

1776 T. Bowden Farmer's Director 53 If the vetches are not cut green..many farmers allow them to stand till they kid and the kids begin to fill.

1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words (at cited word) ‘They beans have kidded uncommon well’.

1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Kid, to coax or wheedle... To amuse a man or divert his attention while another robs him.

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) Kid-rig, To kid a person out of any~thing, is to obtain it from him by means of a false pretence.

1839 H. Brandon Dict. Flash or Cant Lang. in W. A. Miles Poverty, Mendicity & Crime 163/2 Kidding on, to entice one on.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 425/1 He kids them on by promising three times more than the things are worth.

1879 Macmillan's Mag. 40 505 I thought they was only kidding (deceiving) at first.

1895 Daily 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.

1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman ii. 70 Garn! youre kiddin.

1916 C. J. Dennis Moods of Ginger Mick 89 I can see ole Ginger..Grinnin' a bit to kid 'is wound don't pain.

1920 S. Lewis in Sat. Evening Post 11 Dec. 11/2 The boss ain't such a bad pill if you know how to kid him along.

1922 Notes & Queries 12th ser. 11 206/2 A Jockey who has something up his sleeve and sits still on his mount, or by some means deceives those riding against him, is said to be ‘kidding’. He may also ‘kid’ to his horse by his tactics and come with a rush at the finish.

1932 J. 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.

1936 J. 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.

1959 Times 27 June 7/7 If the Australian had not..‘kidded himself along’,..then his heart might have broken.

1969 New 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.

1974 Titbits 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.

1888 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 15 Dec. 3/2 The champion kidder.

1891 J. Newman Scamping Tricks & Odd Knowl. xi. 88 [He] was a beautiful kidder and could patter sweet and pretty.

1900 G. Ade Fables in Slang 84 They wanted a..Name.., so the Side-Show Announcer, who was something of a Kidder..gave them Zoroaster.

1901 ‘H. McHugh’ John Henry 41 ‘Quit your joshin', John Henry!’..‘you're getting to be a worse kidder than Bill McConnell!’

1922 P. G. Wodehouse 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.

1922 Weekly Disp. 17 Dec. 7 He appeared to me to be..the champion ‘kidder’. When I saw him ride it seemed to me that other jockeys did not know what he was about.

1963 J. 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.

1901 ‘H. McHugh’ John Henry 31 Say! I was down and out—no kidding!

1906 S. Ford Shorty McCabe xiii. 273 I'll stand for all the private kidding you can hand out.

1914 E. E. Cummings Let. 27 July (1969) 9 There's a dead monkey-fish hard by the boat club... No kidding!

1928 D. L. Sayers Lord Peter views Body 287 Really? No kidding?

1947 W. 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!’

1969 Listener 9 Jan. 34/3 Mrs O'Hare has, of course, come in for a lot of kidding and wry jokes.