slang. [Cf. prec. and KID v.4] trans. To hoax, humbug, take in (a person).
1850. Dickens, in Househ. Wds., I. 579/1 (Webster). Some of the Swell Mob … so far kiddied us as to hire a horse and shay; start away from London by Whitechapel, and miles round; come into Epsom from the opposite direction,… while we were waiting for ’em at the Rail.
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Labour, I. 416/2 (Hoppe). There they met with beggars who kiddied them on to the lurk.
