pet

sostantivo

1. 1

   An animal kept as a companion or otherwise for pleasure, rather than for some practical benefit or use.

   family pet, pet cat, pet dog, pet store

   My dog Fido has been a loyal pet for ten years.

2. 2

   Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects.

   pet plant, pet rock

   Papyrus: This is my brother's pet rock. He always forgets to feed it. As usual, I have to take responsibility.

3. 3

   One who is excessively loyal to a superior and receives preferential treatment.

4. 4

   Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling.

   At first she sat silent; but that could not last: she had resolved to make a pet of her little cousin, as she would have him to be; and she commenced stroking his curls, and kissing his cheek, and offering him tea in her saucer, like a baby.

   the love of cronies, pets, and favourites

verbo

1. 1

   To stroke or fondle (an animal).

   I really love to pet cute puppies.

2. 2

   informaleTo stroke or fondle (another person) amorously.

   We started petting each other the moment we were alone.

   So we kissed + petted for about 15 mins. + he still wasn't hard, altho he acted like he was enjoying himself.

3. 3

   desuetoTo keep or treat (an animal) as a pet.

   Deer are often tamed and petted, and their flesh is so much esteemed by all Malays, that it is very natural they should endeavour to introduce them into the remote islands in which they settled, and whose luxuriant forests seem so well adapted for their subsistence.

4. 4

   desuetoTo treat (someone) as a pet; to fondle; to indulge.

   His daughter was petted and spoiled.

   […] the American dramatist has had to waste most of his first act elaborately planting the information that his Mister Quex is rich, petted by Society, and altogether more spectacular than the common run of men.

5. 5

   arcaicoTo be a pet.

6. 6

   arcaicoTo be peevish; to sulk.

   He sure is queasie stomach't that must pet, and puke, at such a trivial circumstance

aggettivo

1. 1

   figuratoFavourite; cherished; the focus of one's (usually positive) attention.

   a pet project

   a pet child

   The professor seemed offended by the criticism of her pet theory.

   Some young lady's pet curate.

2. 2

   Kept or treated as a pet.

   pet rock

3. 3

   obsoletoGood; ideal.

   “Now,” said Hands, “look there; there’s a pet bit for to beach a ship in. Fine flat sand, never a cat's paw, trees all around of it, and flowers a-blowing like a garding on that old ship.”

sostantivo

1. 1

   A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted.

   His genius at this time was of a decidedly gloomy cast. He brought his mother a tragedy, in which, though he killed sixteen people before the second act, it made her laugh so, that he thrust the masterpiece into the fire in a pet.

   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.

   Buck Mulligan sat down in a sudden pet.

verbo

1. 1

   To be petulant or upset; to have a problem with.

   Got suttin' in the glove compartment and I won't pet to use it

sostantivo

1. 1

   Variante di petitionAbbreviation of petition.

sostantivo

1. 1

   A term of endearment usually applied to women and children.

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