transcription, транскрипция: [ kɪd ]
( kids, kidding, kidded)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
You can refer to a child as a kid . ( INFORMAL )
They’ve got three kids...
All the kids in my class could read.
N-COUNT
2.
You can refer to your younger brother as your kid brother and your younger sister as your kid sister. ( INFORMAL )
ADJ : ADJ n
3.
A kid is a young goat.
N-COUNT
4.
If you are kidding , you are saying something that is not really true, as a joke. ( INFORMAL )
I’m not kidding, Frank. There’s a cow out there, just standing around...
Are you sure you’re not kidding me?
VERB : usu cont , V , V n
5.
If you kid someone, you tease them.
He liked to kid Ingrid a lot...
He used to kid me about being chubby.
VERB : V n , V n about -ing / n
6.
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.
= fool
VERB : V pron-refl , V pron-refl that
7.
You can say ‘ No kidding? ’ to show that you are interested or surprised when someone tells you something. ( INFORMAL )
‘We won.’—‘No kidding?’
CONVENTION [ feelings ]
8.
You can say ‘ you’ve got to be kidding ’ or ‘ you must be kidding ’ to someone if they have said something that you think is ridiculous or completely untrue. ( INFORMAL )
You’ve got to be kidding! I can’t live here!...
PHRASE : V inflects [ feelings ]
9.
You can say ‘ who is she kidding? ’ or ‘ who is he trying to kid? ’ if you think it is obvious that someone is not being sincere and does not mean what they say. ( INFORMAL )
She played the role of a meek, innocent, shy girl. I don’t know who she was trying to kid...
PHRASE : V inflects