Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult. · A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area. · One's son or daughter, regardless of age. · Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
To dupe or deceive. · To deceive or dupe as a joke. · To deceive oneself by having unrealistic expectations. · To mock or make a fool of (someone) in a playful way.
From Middle English kide, from Old Norse kið (“young goat”), from Proto-Germanic *kidją, *kittīną (“goatling, kid”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaydn-, *ǵʰaydn- (“goat”) or Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ- (“kid, goatling, little goat”). Compare Swedish and Danish kid, German Kitz and Kitze, Albanian kedh and kec. The sense of child has been in use since the 1590s as slang, and since the 1840s in informal use.
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