Kidding

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kid \Kid\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Kidded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Kidding}.]
     To bring forth a young goat.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  kid
       n 1: a young person of either sex; "she writes books for
            children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British
            term for youngsters" [syn: {child}, {youngster}, {minor},
             {shaver}, {nipper}, {small fry}, {tiddler}, {tike}, {tyke},
             {fry}, {nestling}]
       2: soft smooth leather from the hide of a young goat; "kid
          gloves" [syn: {kidskin}]
       3: English dramatist (1558-1594) [syn: {Kyd}, {Thomas Kyd}, {Thomas
          Kid}]
       4: a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age; "they had
          three children"; "they were able to send their kids to
          college" [syn: {child}] [ant: {parent}]
       5: young goat
       v 1: tell false information to for fun; "Are you pulling my leg?"
            [syn: {pull the leg of}]
       2: be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just
          kidded around" [syn: {chaff}, {jolly}, {josh}, {banter}]
       [also: {kidding}, {kidded}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  kidding
       See {kid}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  105 Moby Thesaurus words for "kidding":
     badinage, bamboozlement, banter, bantering, befooling, bluffing,
     booing, calculated deception, catcalling, chaff, chaffing,
     circumvention, conning, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness,
     defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, derisive, derisory, dupery,
     enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, exchange,
     fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, fleering, flimflam,
     flimflammery, flippant, fond illusion, fooling, fooling around,
     give-and-take, good-natured banter, grinning, hallucination,
     harmless teasing, hazing, hissing, hoodwinking, hooting, illusion,
     jape, jeering, jest, jesting, jive, joke, joking, jollying, josh,
     joshing, kidding around, leering, mirage, mocking, outwitting,
     overreaching, panning, persiflage, phantasm, pleasantry,
     putting on, quizzical, ragging, railing, raillery, rallying,
     razzing, ribbing, ridicule, ridiculing, roasting, scoffing,
     self-deception, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smirking, sneering,
     snickering, sniggering, snorting, snow job, song and dance,
     spoofery, spoofing, sport, subterfuge, swindling, taunting,
     teasing, trickiness, tricking, twit, twitting, victimization,
     vision, willful misconception, wishful thinking