Talk:kid

I am interested in why and how the word kid started being used to discribe a child or young person, can anybody help me ?
 * Yes according to this meaning emerged in 1599. Bogorm 10:33, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm saying this completely out of the blue, but the Dutch/German word kind ("child") may have played a role. Sailors or other travellers may have picked up this word and merged it with the native kid.

Verb
Isn't the sense 2 and sense 4 the same? Or I might have discovered a slight difference but am not sure. Ferike333 17:20, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * The difference is in the grammar. A transitive verb includes a direct object: "I kid you."  By contrast, an intransitive verb does not take a direct object "I kid."
 * Thank you. Ferike333 15:24, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

-- man i'dono.... ktt Egyptian :

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ktt Zoren999 (talk) 19:52, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

RFV discussion: January–March 2024
Rfv-sense: - -sche (discuss) 05:50, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
 * 2. Of a female goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid.
 * is this used outside of the phrase "in kid"? if not, doesn't it belong at in kid? I can't find "in (a|the) state of kid", nor "kid state" with this meaning.
 * 13. (vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) semen, ejaculate.
 * is this used outside of the general, vulgar equation of sperm to children by which you can plug any word meaning child into phrases about leaving your potential/unborn/future ? do we consider that kind of use to make kid, child, baby etc idiomatically mean sperm? (maybe?)


 * I've moved the pregnancy-related sense to in kid, and removed the "semen" sense as not idiomatic. - -sche (discuss) 04:20, 9 March 2024 (UTC)