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kid1
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noun
1‘she is married with three kids’
SYNONYMS
child, youngster, little one, young one, baby, toddler, infant, boy, girl, young person, minor, juvenile, adolescent, teenager, youth, stripling
offspring, daughter, son
Scottish bairn, wean
West Indian pickney
informal kiddie, nipper, tot, tiny, kiddiewink, shaver, young 'un
British informal sprog
North American informal rug rat
Australian, New Zealand ankle-biter
derogatory brat, urchin
literary babe
kid2
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verb
1‘the village is called Hell—I'm not kidding’
SYNONYMS
joke, tease, jest, chaff, be facetious
pretend, play, fool about, fool around
informal pull someone's leg, wind up, have on, rib, josh
North American informal pull someone's chain, fun, shuck
2‘why did I kid myself that I'd succeed?’
SYNONYMS
delude, deceive, fool, trick, take in, hoodwink, hoax, beguile, dupe, gull, bamboozle
informal con, pull the wool over someone's eyes
literary cozen
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