kid-on
To entice or incite a person to the perpetration of an act.
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kidden
Or KIDKEN, a low lodging-house for boys.
kidder
A forestaller: see CROCKER. Kidders are also persons employed by the gardeners to gather peas.
kiddie
A child.
kiddie table
A position or situation considered inferior or less important
kiddily
Fashionably or showily; "KIDDILY togg’d," showily dressed.
kiddleywink
A small shop where are retailed the commodities of a village store. Originally KIDDLE-A-WINK, from the offer made, with a wink, to give you something out of the kettle or kiddle. In the west country an alehouse. Also, a woman of unsteady habits.
kiddy
A man, or boy. Formerly a low thief.
kiddy nippers
Taylors out of work, who cut off the waistcoat pockets of their brethren, when cross-legged on their board, thereby grabbling their bit. CANT.
kidment
Humbug, coarse chaff or jocularity.
kidnapper
Originally one who stole or decoyed children or apprentices from their parents or masters, to send them to the colonies; called also spiriting: but now used for all recruiting crimps for the king's troops, or those of the East India company, and agents for indenting servants for the plantations, &c.
kidnapper
Originally one who stole children. Now applied without reference to the age or sex of those stolen. From "kid," a child, and "nab" (corrupted to "nap"), to steal, or seize.
kidney
A waiter.
kidney
Disposition, principles, humour. Of a strange kidney; of an odd or unaccountable humour. A man of a different kidney; a man of different principles.
kidney
"of that KIDNEY," of such a stamp; "strange KIDNEY," odd humour; "two of a KIDNEY," two persons of a sort, or as like as two peas, i.e., resembling each other like two kidneys in a bunch.—Old. "Attempt to put their hair out of KIDNEY."—Terræ Filius, 1763.
kidsman
One who trains boys to thieve and pick pockets successfully.
kielbasa
Penis.
kife
To steal.
Kildare's Holy Fane
Famous for the "Fire of St Bridget," which was inextinguishable, because the nuns never allowed it to go out.
kilkenny cat
A popular simile for a voracious or desperate animal or person, from the story of the two cats in that county, who are said to have fought and bitten each other until a small portion of the tail of one of them alone remained.
kill care club
The members of this club, styled also the Sons of Sound Sense and Satisfaction, met at their fortress, the Castle-tavern, in Paternoster-row.
kill devil
New still-burnt rum.
kill me
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
kill one's darlings
Remove or sacrifice something precious for the greater good
kill or be killed
a situation where one must fight to survive
kill or cure
a remedy that is very harsh but might be effective
kill the chicken to scare the monkey
Punish one to warn or intimidate others
kill the fatted calf
To celebrate a special occasion or welcome someone back with great enthusiasm
kill the goose that lays the golden egg(s)
To destroy a valuable resource or source of benefit
kill trees
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Killed by Kindness
It is said that Draco, the Athenian legislator, met with his death from his popularity, being smothered in the theatre of ^Egina by the number of caps and cloaks showered on him by the spectators (590 B.C.). Thomas Heywood wrote a play called A Woman Kitted with Kindness (1603).
killer instinct
A strong desire to win or succeed at all costs
killing
Bewitching, fascinating. The term is akin to the phrase "dressing to death."
killing no murder
A pamphlet published in Holland and sent over to England in 1657 advising the assassination of Oliver Cromwell. It purported to be by one William Allen, a Jesuit, and has frequently been attributed to Silas Titus flater made a colonel and Groom of the Bedchamber by Charles II), but it was actually by Col. Edward Sexby, a Leveller, who had gone over to the Royalists, and who, in 1657, narrowly failed in an attempt to murder Cromwell.
kilometres per hour
Common English phrase; full definition pending editorial review.
kilt
An Irishism for badly beaten, but by no means equivalent with killed.
kimbo
Or A-KIMBO, holding the arms in a bent position from the body, and resting the hands upon the hips, in a bullying attitude. Said to be from A SCHIMBO, bandy-legged, crooked, Italian; but more probably from KIMBAW, the old cant for beating or bullying. See Grose. Celtic, CAM, crooked.
kimmer
A gossip, an acquaintance, same as CUMMER.—Scotch.
kinchin
A little child. Kinchin coes; orphan beggar boys, educated in thieving. Kinchin morts; young girls under the like circumstances and training. Kinchin morts, or coes in slates; beggars' children carried at their mother's backs in sheets. Kinchin cove; a little man. CANT.
kinchin
A child.—Old Cant. From the German diminutive, KINDCHEN, a baby.
kinchin cove
A man who robs children; a little man.—Ancient Cant.
kincob
Uniform, fine clothes, richly embroidered dresses. Really, cloth of gold or silver.—Anglo-Indian.
kind of
Somewhat or to a certain extent
kind of somebody
considerate or generous to someone
kind regards
A polite way to end a letter or email
kindest regards
A polite way to end a letter or message
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love (Laozi, Chinese philosopher, 604 BC – c. 531 BC)
Kindness fosters strong relationships and personal growth
kindness, like grain, increases by sowing
Kindness grows when shared with others
kindred soul
A person with similar interests or feelings
kindred spirit
A person with similar interests or personality
king and country
One's monarch and nation
King Bomba
A nickname given to Ferdin- and II, King of Naples, in consequence of his cruel bombardment of Messina in 1848, in which the slaughter and destruction of property was most wanton.
King Charles's head
A phrase applied to an obsession, a fixed fancy. It comes from Mr. Dick, the harmless half-wit in David Copper- field^ who, whatever he wrote or said always got round to the subject of King Charles's head, about which he was composing a memorial — he could not keep it out of his thoughts.
King Charles's Spaniel
A small black-and- tan spaniel with a rounded head, short muzzle, full, rather protruding eyes. This variety came into favour at the Restoration, but the colour of the dogs at that time was liver and white.
King Cotton
Cotton, the staple of the Southern States of America, and one of the chief articles of manufacture in England.
King Horn
See under KING. Moses' Horns. See MOSES. Horn with horn or horn under horn.
King James's Bible
See BIBLE, THE ENGLISH. King Log and King Stork. See LOG. King's (or Queen's) Messenger is an official of the British Foreign Office whose duty it is to carry personally confidential messages from London to any embassy or legation abroad.
king john's men
He is one of king John's men, eight score to the hundred: a saying of a little undersized man.
king of all one surveys
Feeling completely in control of one's surroundings
King of Arms
The official title of the chief heralds.
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