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Definitioner
Substantiv
- An animal kept as a companion.
- A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted.
- (Geordie) A term of endearment usually applied to women and children.
- One who is excessively loyal to a superior.
- Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling.
Verb
- (transitive) To stroke or fondle (an animal).
- (transitive, informal) To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously.
- (intransitive, informal) Of two or more people, to stroke and fondle one another amorously.
- (dated, transitive) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge.
- (archaic, intransitive) To be a pet.
Adjektiv
- Favourite; cherished.
Exempel
- the love of cronies, pets, and favourites
- His daughter was petted and spoiled.
- a pet child
- a pet theory
- Some young lady's pet curate.
- There was something ludicrous, even more, unbecoming a gentleman, in leaving a friend's house in a pet, with the host's reproaches sounding in his ears, to be matched only by the bitterness of the guest's sneering retorts.
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