Kidd
Hanged Scottish pirate
Kidd is a surname, most famously associated with William Kidd (Captain Kidd), the 17th-century Scottish privateer who was executed for piracy.
The name appears in various contexts—athletes, musicians, fictional characters—but Captain Kidd remains the dominant reference: buried treasure like Captain Kidd's.
Caribbean colonial-era pirate
- corsairPirate or pirate ship
- privateerAuthorized civilian warship
- treasureValued wealth or keepsake
- galleonLarge historical sailing ship
Jolly Roger · swashbuckler · plunder · cutlass · marooned · mutiny · doubloon · Caribbean
Study of family descent
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- family nameHereditary portion of identity
clan · patronymic · Scottish · Irish · descendants · relatives · bloodline · kinship
buccaneer
Caribbean colonial-era pirate
galleon · Jolly Roger · swashbuckler · plunder · cutlass · marooned · mutiny · doubloon · Caribbean · Blackbeard
genealogy
Study of family descent
family name · clan · patronymic · Scottish · Irish · descendants · relatives · bloodline · kinship · pedigree
- blood typingblood type, blood group, blood groups, blood typing, type B
KiddHoratio Nelson
Francis Drake · John Paul Jones · Royal Navy · naval officer
- just kiddingRetraction of a jest
- you're kiddingExpression of surprised disbelief
- little kidYoung child, quite small
- no kiddingExpression of genuine surprise
- new kidRecently arrived youngster
- are you kiddingExpression of disbelief
kid, kids, kidding, kidnap, kidded, kidnapping, kidnapped, kidnapper, kidder