kiddier

English

Adjective

kiddier

  1. comparative form of kiddy: more kiddy

Etymology 2

Compare Old Swedish kyta (“to truck”).

Noun

kiddier (plural kiddiers)

  1. (obsolete) A huckster; a cadger.[1]
    • 1562-1563, Acts of Queen Elizabeth:
      Every person […] not […] being in Service wth any Kyddyer or Carryor of any Corne Grayne or Meale.
  2. (obsolete, UK, slang) A pork butcher.[2]
References
  1. “kiddier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  2. 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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