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-kin dim. suffix, first attested c.1250 in proper names adopted from Flanders and Holland, probably from M.Du. -kin, properly a double-dim., from -k + -in. Equivalent to Ger. -chen. K one thousand dollars, 1970s, from kilo-. As an indication of strikeout in baseball scorekeeping, first recorded c.1880, said to be from last letter of struck, since first letter was already being used as abbreviation for sacrifice. The invention of the scorecard symbols is attributed to newspaperman Henry Chadwick. K as a measure of capacity (esp. in computer memory) or number (esp. of salary), meaning one thousand is an abbrev. of kilo (q.v.). Kaaba 1734 (Caaba), cube-shaped building in the Great Mosque of Mecca, containing the Black Stone, from Arabic kabah square house, from kab cube. kabuki 1899, from Japanese, popular theater (as opposed to shadow puppet-plays or lyrical Noh dramas), lit. art of song and dance, from ka song + bu dance + ki art. Alternate etymology (in Websters) is from nominal form of kabuku to be divergent, to deviate, from early opinion of this form of drama. Since c.1650, all parts are played by males. Kaddish doxology of the Jewish ritual, 1613, from Aramaic qaddish holy, holy one, from stem of qdhash was holy, ithqaddash was sanctified, related to Heb. qadhash was holy, qadhosh holy. According to Kline, the name probably is from the second word of the text veyithqaddash and sanctified be. kaffeeklatsch gossip over cups of coffee, 1888, from Ger., from kaffee coffee + klatsch gossip (see klatsch). kaffir 1790, from Arabic qafir unbeliever, infidel, impious wretch, with a lit. sense of one who does not admit the blessings of God, from kafara to cover up, conceal, deny. Technically, non-Muslim, but in Ottoman times it came to be used almost exclusively for Christian. Early Eng. missionaries used it as an equivalent of heathen to refer to Bantus in South Africa (1792), from which use it came generally to mean South African black regardless of ethnici