1872. Daily News, 5 Jan., p. 2, col. 1. A stern man and a strong, he was not to be blinded, by emphatic expostulators against kidding, to the fact that the clamourers against that species of throwing dust in a fellow mortal's eyes were in fact themselves kidding with the greatest activity. Comfort is a relative term.
1879. Macmillan's Mag., xl. 505. I thought they were only kidding at first.
1880. Jas. Greenwood, Fly Faker's Hotel, in 'Odd People in odd Places,' p. 55. 'Why, you don't mean to say that you've been kidded to expect a bed for your fourpence,' said he; 'a regler turn-in, I mean, with sheets and that?'
1884. R. Jefferies, in Longm. Mag., iv. 255. While the fisherman was telling me this woeful story, I fancied I heard voices from a crowd of the bigger boys collected under a smack, voices that said, 'Ho! ho! Go on! you're kidding the man!'
1889. Answers, 2 March, p. 218, col. 1. 'One and tuppence a day,' said the bootblack, sarcastically; E's on'y a kiddin' on yer. Arsk that there copper whether he don't take 'is four or five bob a day.'
1892. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, 33. He wos kidding me.
To kid on, verb. phr. (common).—To lead on by gammon or deceit.
1851. H. Mayhew, London Lab. and Lond. Poor, i. p. 473. 'At the same time he kids them on by promising three times more than the things are worth.'
1888. J. Runciman, The Chequers, p. 186. I was kiddin' him on.
1889. Licensed Victuallers' Gazette, 4 Jan. He kidded—who had just come in for his father's brass—to let him have the lot.
To kid oneself, verb. phr. (common).—To be conceited.
Hard Kid, subs. phr. (common).—Hard lines; bad luck; hard cheese (q.v.).
Kidden (or Kid-ken or Kiddy-ken), subs. (thieves').—A lodging house frequented by young thieves.
1839. Brandon, Poverty, Mendicity, and Crime, pp. 74 and 90, s.v.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
Kidder, subs. (old).—1. See quot.
1785.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulgar Tongue, s.v. Kidder, a forestaller.
2. (common).—A glib and taking speaker; a master of chaff.
1888. Sporting Life, 15 Dec. Ask Mr. Baldock . . . to whom I allude, and he will probably reply the champion kidder.
1891. J. Newman, Scamping Tricks, p. 88. He was a beautiful kidder and could patter sweet and pretty.
Kiddier, subs. (common).—A pork-butcher.
Kiddily, adj. (common).—Fashionably; showily; flashily. Cf. kid subs. sense 2.—Also kiddy, adj.
1828. Jon Bee, Picture of London, p. 304 note. He and his brother . . . dressed kiddily, kept late hours, and pilfered to support it, as usual.
Kid-lay (or rig), subs. (old).—See quot. 1690.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Kidlay, one who meeting a Prentice with a Bundle or Parcel of goods, wheedles him by fair words, and whipping Sixpence into his Hand, to step on a short and sham Errand for him, in the mean time runs away with the goods.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
Kiddleywink, subs. (common).—1.
A raffle.
1884. Daily Telegraph, 6 August, p. 3, col. 1. When it is intended to 'pull off' . . . a kidliwink, or raffle.
2. (common).—A small village shop; and, (3) specifically (in the West country), an ale-house.
