Synonyms of the word

kid

• n. A young goat.
• n. Of a female goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid.
• n. Kidskin.
• n. (uncountable) The meat of a young goat.
• n. A young antelope.
• n. (informal) a child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile.
• n. (colloquial) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
• n. (nautical) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.
• n. (informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular decade or area.
• n. (informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
• n. (used in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To make a fool of (someone).
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To make a joke with (someone).
• v. (intransitive) Of a goat, to give birth to kids.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To joke.
• n. A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.

bait

• n. Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare,…
• n. Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.
• n. Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.
• n. A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
• n. A light or hasty luncheon.
• v. (transitive) To attract with bait; to entice.
• v. (transitive) To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.
• v. (transitive) To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport.
• v. (transitive) To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To feed and water (a horse or other animal), especially during a journey.
• v. (intransitive) (of a horse or other animal) To take food, especially during a journey.
• v. (intransitive) (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops…

banter

• n. Good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in banter or playful conversation.
• v. (intransitive) To play or do something amusing.
• v. (transitive) To tease (someone) mildly.
• v. (transitive) To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.
• v. (transitive, US, Southern and Western, colloquial) To challenge to a match.

befool

• v. (transitive, archaic) To make a fool out of (someone); to fool, trick, or deceive (someone).

chaff

• n. The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
• n. By extension, any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
• n. Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil, dropped from aircraft specifically to interfere with…
• n. Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
• n. Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
• v. (intransitive) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
• v. (transitive) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to…

child

• n. A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal…
• n. (with possessive) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
• n. (with possessive) One's descendants, regardless of age.
• n. (figuratively) A figurative offspring, particularly.

cod

• n. (obsolete) A small bag or pouch.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A husk or integument; a pod.
• n. (now rare) The scrotum (also in plural).
• n. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Scotland) A pillow or cushion.
• n. The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua.
• n. The sea fish of the genus Gadus generally, as inclusive of the Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus)and Greenland…
• n. The sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) and…
• n. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other unrelated fish which are similarly important to regional fisheries,…
• n. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other unrelated fish which resemble the Atlantic cod, as the rock…
• n. A joke or an imitation.
• n. A stupid or foolish person.
• adj. Having the character of imitation; jocular. (now usually attributive, forming mostly compound adjectives).
• v. (slang, transitive, dialectal) To attempt to deceive or confuse.

dramatist

• n. playwright.

dupe

• n. A person who has been deceived.
• v. To swindle, deceive, or trick.
• n. (photography) A duplicate of a photographic image.
• n. (restaurant industry) A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.
• n. (informal) A duplicate.
• v. (transitive) To duplicate.

fool

• n. (pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
• n. (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
• n. (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
• n. (slang) Buddy, dude, person.
• n. (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
• n. (often capitalized, Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck.
• v. To trick; to make a fool of someone.
• v. To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.

fry

• v. (transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.
• v. (intransitive) To cook in hot fat.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To be executed by the electric chair.
• v. (transitive, informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
• n. (usually in plural fries) (mainly Canada and US) A fried strip of potato.
• n. (Ireland, Britain) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
• n. (colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.
• n. (now chiefly Britain dialectal) Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
• n. Young fish; fishlings.
• n. (archaic) A swarm, especially of something small (a fry of children).
• n. (Britain dialectal) The spawn of frogs.
• n. A kind of sieve.
• n. A drain.

goat

• n. A mammal, Capra aegagrus hircus, and similar species of the genus Capra.
• n. (slang) A lecherous man.
• n. (informal) A scapegoat.
• n. Nickname for the Pontiac GTO.
• v. (transitive) To allow goats to feed on.
• v. (transitive) To scapegoat.

gull

• n. A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
• n. (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
• n. One easily cheated; a dupe.
• v. To deceive or cheat.
• v. (US, slang) To mislead.
• v. (US, slang) To trick and defraud.

issue

• n. The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly.
• n. Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly.
• n. The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly.
• n. The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly.
• n. The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly.
• n. Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly.
• n. The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly.
• n. The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly.
• n. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
• n. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.
• n. (figuratively, originally WWI military slang, usually with definite article) All of something.
• v. To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
• v. To rush out, to sally forth.
• v. To extend into, to open onto.
• v. To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
• v. (law) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
• v. To send out; to put into circulation.
• v. To deliver for use.
• v. To deliver by authority.

jolly

• adj. Full of high and merry spirits; jovial.
• n. (Britain, dated) A pleasure trip or excursion.
• n. (slang, dated) A marine in the English navy.
• adv. (Britain, dated) very, extremely.
• v. (transitive) To amuse or divert.

josh

• n. Good-natured banter.
• v. (transitive) To tease someone in a kindly or friendly fashion.
• v. (intransitive) To make or exchange good-natured jokes.

juvenile

• adj. young; not fully developed.
• adj. characteristic of youth or immaturity; childish.
• n. A prepubescent child.
• n. A person not legally of age, or who is younger than may be charged with an offence.
• n. An animal that is not sexually mature.
• n. An actor playing a child's role.
• n. A publication for young adult readers.

kidskin

• n. The skin or hide of a kid, i.e., a young goat; the leather made from such skins.
• adj. Of or pertaining to kidskin.

leather

• n. A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing.
• n. A piece of the above used for polishing.
• n. (colloquial) A cricket ball or football.
• n. (plural: leathers) clothing made from the skin of animals, often worn by motorcycle riders.
• n. (baseball) A good defensive play.
• n. (dated, humorous) The skin.
• adj. Made of leather.
• adj. Referring to one who wears leather clothing (motorcycle jacket, chaps over 501 jeans, boots), especially…
• v. To cover with leather.
• v. To strike forcefully.
• v. To beat with a leather belt or strap.

minor

• adj. Of little significance or importance.
• adj. (music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the…
• adj. (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
• n. A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities…
• n. A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who…
• n. (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix.
• n. (British slang, dated) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
• n. (zoology) A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
• v. To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

nestling

• n. A small bird that is still confined to the nest.
• n. (obsolete) A nest; a receptacle.
• v. present participle of nestle.
• n. The act of one who nestles.

nipper

• n. One who, or that which, nips.
• n. (usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
• n. (slang) A child.
• n. (Australia) A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
• n. (Canada, slang, Newfoundland) A mosquito.
• n. One of four foreteeth in a horse.
• n. (obsolete) A satirist.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
• n. A fish, the cunner.
• n. A European crab (Polybius henslowii).
• n. The claws of a crab or lobster.
• n. (dated) A machine used by a ticket inspector to stamp passengers' tickets.

offspring

• n. A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.
• n. All a person's descendants, including further generations.
• n. An animal or plant's progeny, an animal or plant's young.
• n. (figuratively) Another produce, result of an entity's efforts.
• n. (computing) A process launched by another process.

playwright

• n. A writer and creator of theatrical plays.

progeny

• n. (uncountable) Offspring or descendants.
• n. (countable) A result of a creative effort.

rag

• n. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
• n. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
• n. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
• n. A ragged edge in metalworking.
• n. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
• n. (slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
• n. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
• v. (intransitive) To become tattered.
• n. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
• v. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
• v. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
• v. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
• v. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
• v. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
• v. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
• n. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
• n. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
• n. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
• n. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
• v. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.

rally

• n. A demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause.
• n. (squash (sport), table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a…
• n. (motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals…
• n. (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
• v. To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
• v. To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight;…
• v. To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
• v. (business, trading) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
• v. To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
• n. Good-humoured raillery.

razz

• n. (poker) A version of seven card stud where the worst poker hand wins (called lowball).
• v. (informal) To tease playfully; to heckle.
• v. (informal) (Newfoundland) To drive an automobile around.

ride

• v. (intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle…
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
• v. (transitive, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such…
• v. (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
• v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
• v. (intransitive) To rely, depend (on).
• v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
• v. (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
• v. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
• v. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
• v. (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
• n. An instance of riding.
• n. (informal) A vehicle.
• n. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
• n. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
• n. (Britain) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
• n. (Britain, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
• n. (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.

shaver

• n. One who shaves.
• n. A barber, one whose occupation is to shave.
• n. A tool or machine for shaving; an electric razor.
• n. (slang, obsolete) One who is close in bargains; a sharper.
• n. One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
• n. (colloquial) A boy; a lad; a little fellow.

slang

• n. Language outside of conventional usage.
• n. Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.
• n. The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those…
• v. (transitive, dated) To vocally abuse, or shout at.
• v. (archaic) simple past tense of sling.
• n. (Britain, dialect) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.

tantalise

• v. Alternative spelling of tantalize.

tantalize

• v. (transitive) to tease (someone) by offering something desirable but keeping it out of reach.
• v. (transitive) to bait (someone) by showing something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied.

taunt

• v. to make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.
• n. A scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery.
• adj. (nautical) Very high or tall.

tease

• v. To separate the fibres of a fibrous material.
• v. To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
• v. To back-comb.
• v. (transitive) To poke fun at.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
• v. (transitive) To entice, to tempt.
• v. (transitive, informal) To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
• n. One who teases.
• n. A single act of teasing.
• n. A cock tease; an exotic dancer; a stripper.

tiddler

• n. A small person.
• n. (Britain, informal) A small fish, especially a stickleback.

tike

• n. Alternative spelling of tyke (mongrel dog).
• n. A boorish person.
• n. Archaic form of tick (a kind of arthropod).

twit

• v. (transitive) To reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease.
• v. (transitive, computing) To ignore or killfile (a user on a bulletin board system).
• n. A reproach, gibe or taunt.
• n. A foolish or annoying person.

tyke

• n. (dialectal) A mongrel dog.
• n. (colloquial) A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one.
• n. (dated, chiefly Britain) A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
• n. (Britain, informal) A person from Yorkshire; a Yorkshireman or Yorkshirewoman.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, informal, derogatory) A Roman Catholic.

youngster

• n. A young person.