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Kid

A young goat.

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Narrower term 26

Babe 76% connected

An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.

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Baby 76% connected

An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.

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Bairn 76% connected

A child.

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Bambino 76% connected

A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.

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Buster 76% connected

Something huge; a roistering blade; also, a spree.

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Changeling 76% connected

One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies.

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Fosterling 76% connected

A foster child.

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Imp 76% connected

A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft.

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Infant 76% connected

A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age.

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Kiddy 76% connected

To deceive; to outwit; to hoax.

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Kindergartner 76% connected

One who teaches in a kindergarten.

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Monkey 76% connected

In the most general sense, any one of the Quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs.

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Orphan 76% connected

A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.

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Peanut 76% connected

The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis hypogaea); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit.

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Pickaninny 76% connected

A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant.

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Rapscallion 76% connected

A rascal; a good-for-nothing fellow.

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Rascal 76% connected

One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean, ill-conditioned beast, esp. a d…

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Scalawag 76% connected

A scamp; a scapegrace.

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Scamp 76% connected

A rascal; a swindler; a rogue.

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Silly 76% connected

Happy; fortunate; blessed.

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Stepchild 76% connected

A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother.

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Toddler 76% connected

One who toddles; especially, a young child.

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Tot 76% connected

Anything small; -- frequently applied as a term of endearment to a little child.

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Urchin 76% connected

A hedgehog.

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Waif 76% connected

Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the…

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Yearling 76% connected

An animal one year old, or in the second year of its age; -- applied chiefly to cattle, sheep, and horses.

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Bait 76% connected

Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.

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Befool 76% connected

To fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to deceive.

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Cod 76% connected

A husk; a pod; as, a peascod.

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Dupe 76% connected

One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer.

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Fool 76% connected

A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.

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Goat 76% connected

A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (C. hircus), which is raised for its milk, fles…

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Gull 76% connected

To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud.

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Issue 76% connected

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

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Juvenile 76% connected

Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance.

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Leather 76% connected

The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively.

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Offspring 76% connected

The act of production; generation.

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Progeny 76% connected

Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage.

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Rag 76% connected

To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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Rally 76% connected

To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.

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Ride 76% connected

To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

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Slang 76% connected

imp. of Sling. Slung.

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Tantalize 76% connected

To tease or torment by presenting some good to the view and exciting desire, but continually frustrating the expectations by keeping that good out of…

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Taunt 76% connected

Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts.

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Tease 76% connected

To comb or card, as wool or flax.

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Twit 76% connected

To vex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted…

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Raillery 74% connected

Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment.

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Raillery 74% connected

Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment.

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Containing group 1

Family 70% connected

The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as…

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Synonym 12

Banter 92% connected

To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as,…

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Chaff 92% connected

The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.

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Child 92% connected

A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used…

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Fry 92% connected

To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry…

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Jolly 92% connected

Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful.

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Minor 92% connected

Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.

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Nestling 92% connected

of Nestle

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Nipper 92% connected

One who, or that which, nips.

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Shaver 92% connected

One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave.

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Tike 92% connected

A tick. See 2d Tick.

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Tyke 92% connected

See 2d Tike.

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Youngster 92% connected

A young person; a youngling; a lad.

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