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.
    • 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “kiddier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

References
  • (pork butcher): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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