Meaning

3 senses

  1. A small kid (young goat).

  2. (archaic, slang)A man, a fellow; a person.

  3. (UK, obsolete, slang)A low thief.

More definitions
  • informal term for a young child

Origin

From kid + -y.

From kid + -y.

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Forms

plural: kiddies
Singularkiddy
Pluralkiddies

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • informal term for a young child:kiddie

Word family

1 related words
Derivedkiddyish

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
kidA1kiddiekiddokidnapkidnapperkidnapping

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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