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kidglove

kidglove is the alternative form of kid glove.

Meaning of kid glove

Noun

kid glove (plural kid gloves)

  1. (figuratively, plural-normally) A metaphorical representation of careful handling.
    • to handle with kid gloves
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see kid, glove.
    • As he saw her hands in their old black kid gloves getting the silver out of the worn purse, his heart contracted with pain of love of her.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter V, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC

Forms of kidglove

pluralkidgloves

Questions about kidglove

What is kidglove the alternative form of?
Kidglove is the alternative form of kid glove.

Words near kidglove in the dictionary

  1. kidfucker
  2. kidfuckers
  3. kidfur
  4. kidfurs
  5. kidgeree
  6. kidglove
  7. kidhood
  8. kidhoods
  9. kidjolanin
  10. kidkind
  11. kidless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kidglove (page history and authors); kid glove (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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