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Kidding vs Skidding - What's the difference?

kidding | skidding |

As verbs the difference between kidding and skidding

is that kidding is while skidding is .

As nouns the difference between kidding and skidding

is that kidding is the action of the verb (kid) while skidding is the motion of something that skids.

kidding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * just kidding

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb (kid).
  • (agriculture) The act of a goat giving birth.
  • * 2006 , Robert S. Youngquist, Walter R. Threlfall, Current Therapy in Large Animal Theriogenology
    • Attended kiddings allow owners to remove the kids from their dams prior to suckling and ingestion of colostrum.

    Derived terms

    * no kidding

    skidding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of something that skids.
  • * 1917 , B. M. Bower, Starr of the Desert (page 57)
    • When an automobile, for instance, traveled that road, it was with many skiddings in the sand on the turns, which it must take circumspectly if the driver did not care for the rocky, uneven floor of the desert itself.