How to pronounce kid
American English pronunciation
KID
- IPA
- /ˈkɪd/
- Syllables
- KID (1 syllable)
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What kid means
Most people know kid in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.
A baby goat
In a sentence: The little kid hopped along beside its mother goat in the barn.
Where it comes from: It comes from an Old Norse word for a young goat. People started calling children kids as slang in the 1590s.
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