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.