| word | kid |
|---|---|
| definition | noun You can refer to a child as a kid . They've got three kids. All the kids in my class could read. Young people who are no longer children are sometimes referred to as kids . There were gangs of kids on motorbikes roaming around. That's a lot for a kid of 22 to cope with. A kid is a young goat. adjective You can refer to your younger brother as your kid brother and your younger sister as your kid sister. My kid sister woke up and started crying. verb If you are kidding, you are saying something that is not really true, as a joke . I'm not kidding, Frank. There's a cow out there, just standing around. I'm just kidding. Are you sure you're not kidding me? If you kid someone, you tease them. He liked to kid Ingrid a lot. He used to kid me about being chubby. If people kid themselves, they allow themselves to believe something that is not true because they wish that it was true. We're kidding ourselves, Bill. We're not winning, we're not even doing well. I could kid myself that you did this for me, but it would be a lie. |
| inflections | kidskiddingkidded |
| cefr-level | A2 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:a2
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