A pet is an animal you keep as a companion, usually in your house. People love to pet, or touch, their pets. A pet is also a favorite. A teacher’s pet is the teacher’s fave student. No barking required.
A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.
Noun
using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain)
Noun
a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement
Noun
a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight)
Noun
a special loved one
Verb
stroke or caress in an erotic manner, as during lovemaking
Verb
stroke or caress gently; "pet the lamb"
Adjective S.
preferred above all others and treated with partiality; "the favored child"
n.
A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.
n.
Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a
fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child.
n.
A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness.
a.
Petted; indulged; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet
lamb; a pet theory.
v. t.
To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was
petted and spoiled.
v. i.
To be a pet.
Pet
The love of cronies, pets, and favorites.3.
Pet
Some young lady's pet curate.
Pet
Pet
A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.
Petted; indulged; admired; cherished;
To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge;
To be a pet.
Usage Examples
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
I don't have pet peeves I have whole kennels of irritation.
A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.
Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.
I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.
I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.
I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!
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Other Usage ExamplesI had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and I've never been able to replace him. Normally, most people lose a pet and get another and keep going on. But it just felt wrong to me it felt disloyal.
I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.
I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine.
I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun.
Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.
I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.
And I strongly believe people should rescue dogs, or, at the very least, listen to Bob Barker and have your pet spayed or neutered.
I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.