kidding

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kid1

▶noun

• 1 a young goat.

  ■ leather made from a young goat's skin.

• 2 informal a child or young person.

▶verb (kids, kidding, kidded) (of a goat) give birth.

– phrases
handle (or treat) someone/thing with kid gloves deal with someone or something very carefully.
kids' stuff informal something that is easy or simple to do.

– origin ME: from ON kith, of Gmc origin.

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kid2

▶verb (kids, kidding, kidded) informal

• 1 deceive playfully; tease.

  ■ fool into believing something.

• 2 (kid around) behave in a silly way.

– derivatives
kidder noun,
kidding adjective,
kiddingly adverb.

– origin C19: perh. from kid1, expressing the notion ‘make a child or goat of’.

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kid3

▶noun archaic a small wooden tub, especially a sailor's mess tub for grog or rations.

– origin C18: perh. a var. of kit1.