kiddy

plural kiddies

1. A small kid (young goat).
2. alternativecolloquialAlternative spelling of kiddie (“a child”).
3. archaicslangA man, a fellow; a person.

   So what I do kiddies, is work hard, stay in shape, practice.

   1970, Jim Bouton, Ball Four, New York, page 22

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   Chazz is a gangland kiddy of the more amiable sort who all his life has wanted to be taken for menacing […].

   2025, Thomas Pynchon, Shadow Ticket, Jonathan Cape, page 93

4. UKobsoleteslangA low thief.

present singular third person kiddies · participle present kiddying · participle past kiddied · past kiddied

1. archaicTo kid; to hoax or tease.

   But some of the Swell Mob, on the occasion of this Derby that I refer to, so far kiddied us as to hire a horse and shay; start away from London by Whitechapel, and miles round; come into Epsom from the opposite direction; […]

   1850 September 14, [Charles Dickens], “Three “Detective” Anecdotes”, in Charles Dickens, editor, Household Words. A Weekly Journal., volume I, number 25, London: Office, […], →OCLC

comparative kiddier · superlative kiddiest

1. informalChildish.

   The concept is really old, the graphics look very kiddy, and the creators are making millions off it.

   2013, Nico Vermeir, Windows 8 App Projects - XAML and C# Edition, page 193

1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.