pet

[Pet]

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.

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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

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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

Pet , n. [Formerly peat, perhaps from Ir. peat, akin to Gael. peata.] 1. A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand. 2. Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child.
The love of cronies, pets, and favorites.
3. [Prob. fr. Pet a fondling, hence, the behavior or humor of a spoiled child.] A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness. "In a pet she started up." Tennyson.

Pet

Pet, a. Petted; indulged; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet lamb; a pet theory.
Some young lady's pet curate.
Pet cock. [Perh. for petty cock.] (Mach.) A little faucet in a water pipe or pump, to let air out, or at the end of a steam cylinder, to drain it.

Pet

Pet, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Petted; p. pr. & vb. n. Petting.] To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was petted and spoiled.

Pet

Pet, v. i. To be a pet. Feltham.

A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.

Petted; indulged; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet lamb; a pet theory.

To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was petted and spoiled.

To be a pet.

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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 Examples

I 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.

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