kid vs mimic

kid

noun
  • Kidskin. 

  • The meat of a young goat. 

  • A child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile. 

  • An inexperienced person or one in a junior position. 

  • A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze. 

  • A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area. 

  • Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult. 

  • Of a female goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid. 

  • A young goat. 

  • A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food. 

  • A young antelope. 

  • One's son or daughter, regardless of age. 

verb
  • Of a goat, to give birth. 

  • To joke. 

  • To dupe or deceive (someone). 

  • To make a joke with (someone). 

  • To make a fool of (someone). 

mimic

noun
  • A mime. 

  • An imitation. 

  • A comic who does impressions. 

  • An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator. 

adj
  • Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry. 

  • Pertaining to mimicry; imitative. 

  • Mock, pretended. 

verb
  • To imitate, especially in order to ridicule. 

  • To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage. 

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