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This page has 32 definitions of pet with English translations in 10 languages. Pet is a noun, verb, an adjective and numeral. Examples of how to use pet in a sentence are shown. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .

See also: Pet, PET, pét, pêt, pět, pęt, and Pet.

English pet definition

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Attested since the 1500s in the sense "indulged child" and since the 1530s in the sense "animal companion".[1][2][3] From Scots and dialectal Northern English, of unclear origin. Perhaps a back-formation of petty, pety (“little, small”), a term formerly used to describe children and animals (e.g. pet lambs).[2][3] Alternatively, perhaps a borrowing of Scottish Gaelic peata, from Middle Irish petta, peta (“pet, lap-dog”), of uncertain (possibly pre-Indo-European substrate) origin.[4] Compare peat (“pet, darling, woman”).

The verb is derived from the noun.[2][3]

Noun

pet (plural pets)

  1. An animal kept as a companion.
  2. (by extension) Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects. (pet rock, pet plant, etc.)
    • 2015 September 15, Toby Fox, Undertale, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X:
      Papyrus: This is my brother's pet rock. He always forgets to feed it. As usual, I have to take responsibility.
  3. One who is excessively loyal to a superior and receives preferential treatment.
  4. Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling.
    • 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter XIX, in Wuthering Heights, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], OCLC 156123328:
      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.
    • 1711 January 1 (Gregorian calendar)​, Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Richard Steele et al.], “Thursday, December 21, 1710”, in The Tatler, number 266; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], volume III, London stereotype edition, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822, OCLC 69947324:
      the love of cronies, pets, and favourites
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Verb

pet (third-person singular simple present pets, present participle petting, simple past and past participle petted or (nonstandard) pet)

  1. (transitive) To stroke or fondle (an animal).
  2. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously.
  3. (dated, transitive) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge.
    His daughter was petted and spoiled.
  4. (archaic, intransitive) To be a pet.
  5. (archaic, intransitive) To be peevish; to sulk.
    • 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
      He sure is queasie stomach't that must pet, and puke, at such a trivial circumstance
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Adjective

pet (not comparable)

  1. Favourite; cherished; the focus of one's (usually positive) attention.
    a pet child
    The professor seemed offended by the criticism of her pet theory.
    • 1886, Frederic Harrison, The Choice of Books
      Some young lady's pet curate.
    • 1875, William Conant Church, The Galaxy, page 141:
      Major Butler has a pet grievance and a pet aversion, which he forces on the reader in every chapter, and which becomes at last very wearisome.
    • 1991, Deborah G. Douglas, United States Women in Aviation, 1940-1985, page 9:
      In an interview with Flying magazine, Heberding commented that her pet annoyance was "the reluctance of people generally to accept a woman whether as a pilot or a preflight inspector."
  2. Kept or treated as a pet.
    pet rock
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References

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “pet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 “pet”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 “pet”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary
  4. ^ Schrijver, Peter (2000), “Non-Indo-European Surviving in Ireland in the First Millennium AD”, in Ériu, volume 51, JSTOR 30008378, pages 195–199

Etymology 2

Clipping of petulance.

Noun

pet (plural pets)

  1. A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted.
    • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, OCLC 2057953:
      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.
    • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 105:
      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.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Part I, episode 1:]”, in Ulysses, London: The Egoist Press, published October 1922, OCLC 2297483:
      Buck Mulligan sat down in a sudden pet.

Etymology 3

Clipping of petition.

Noun

pet (plural pets)

  1. Abbreviation of petition.

Etymology 4

Clipping of petal.

Noun

pet (plural pets)

  1. (Ireland, Tyneside) A term of endearment usually applied to women and children.

References

  • A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN

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Anagrams

Catalan pet definition

Etymology

From Latin pēditum. Compare Occitan pet, French pet, Spanish pedo.

Pronunciation

Noun

pet m (plural pets)

  1. (colloquial) fart

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Chuukese pet definition

Etymology

Borrowed from English bed.

Noun

pet

  1. bed
    • 2010, Ewe Kapasen God, United Bible Societies, →ISBN, Luke 5:24, page 110:
      Iwe upwe pwȧr ngeni kemi pwe mi wor an ewe Noun Aramas manamanen omusano tipis won fonufan. Iwe a apasa ngeni ewe mwan mi mwök, 'Upwe erenuk, kopwe uta, kopwe eki om na pet o feinno non imwom!"
      Therefore I will show you that the Son of Man has the power of forgiving sins on earth. So he said to the sick man, 'I tell you, stand, grab your bed and go to your house!"

Dutch pet definition

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

pet m (plural petten, diminutive petje n)

  1. cap (headwear with a peak at the front)

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Adjective

pet (comparative petter, superlative petst)

  1. (slang) bad, crappy

Inflection

Inflection of pet
uninflected pet
inflected pette
comparative petter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial pet petter het petst
het petste
indefinite m./f. sing. pette pettere petste
n. sing. pet petter petste
plural pette pettere petste
definite pette pettere petste
partitive pets petters —

Derived terms

  • naatje pet

Descendants

French pet definition

Etymology

From Old French pet, inherited from Latin pēditum.

Pronunciation

Noun

pet m (plural pets)

  1. (colloquial) fart
  2. (colloquial, nonstandard) Common apocope for pétard (joint) (pronounced IPA(key): /pɛt/ in singular and plural). Rarely pèt

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Friulian pet definition

Etymology

From Latin pectus.

Noun

pet m (plural pets)

  1. (anatomy) chest

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Indonesian pet definition

Etymology

From Dutch pet, probably from French toupet. Doublet of peci.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛt̪̚]
  • Hyphenation: pèt

Noun

pet (plural pet-pet, first-person possessive petku, second-person possessive petmu, third-person possessive petnya)

  1. cap (headwear with a peak at the front)
    Hypernym: topi

Further reading

Middle French pet definition

Noun

pet m (plural pets)

  1. (vulgar) fart, gas, flatulence

Polish pet definition

Pronunciation

Noun

pet m anim (diminutive pecik)

  1. (colloquial) cigarette butt
    Synonyms: kiep, niedopałek
  2. (colloquial, derogatory) cigarette
    Synonyms: papieros, fajek, szlug

Declension

Declension of pet
singular plural
nominative pet pety
genitive peta petów
dative petowi petom
accusative peta pety
instrumental petem petami
locative pecie petach
vocative pecie pety

Further reading

  • pet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • pet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese pet definition

Etymology

Borrowed from English pet.

Pronunciation

Noun

pet m (plural pets)

  1. (Brazil, upper class slang) pet (animal kept as a companion)
    Synonyms: animal de estimação (much more common), mascote

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Romansch pet definition

Alternative forms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) pèz
  • (Sutsilvan) péz

Etymology

From Latin pectus.

Noun

pet m (plural pets)

  1. (Puter, Vallader, anatomy) chest, thorax

Related terms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun) sain
  • (Sursilvan) sein
  • (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) sagn

Serbo-Croatian pet definition

Serbo-Croatian numbers (edit)
50
 ←  4 5 6  → 
    Cardinal: pet
    Ordinal: peti
    Multiplier: petostruk
    Collective: petoro
    Fractional: petina

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pętь, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

Pronunciation

Numeral

pȇt (Cyrillic spelling пе̑т)

  1. five (5)

Slovene pet definition

Slovene numbers
< 4 5 6 >

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *pętь, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

Pronunciation

Numeral

pẹ̑t

  1. five
Inflection
Declension of pet (numeral)
nom. plur. [Term?]
gen. plur. [Term?]
plural
nominative pet
accusative pet
genitive petih
dative petim
locative petih
instrumental petimi

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

pet

  1. genitive dual/plural of peta

Tày pet definition

Tày cardinal numbers
 <  7 8 9  > 
    Cardinal : pet

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *peːtᴰ (“eight”), from Chinese 八 (MC pˠat̚, “eight”). Cognate with Thai แปด (bpɛ̀ɛt), Lao ແປດ (pǣt), Lü ᦶᦔᧆᧈ (ṗaed1), Tai Dam ꪵꪜꪒ, Shan ပႅတ်ႇ (pèt), Tai Nüa ᥙᥦᥖᥱ (pǎet), Ahom 𑜆𑜢𑜄𑜫 (pit), Bouyei beedt, Zhuang bet.

Pronunciation

Numeral

pet

  1. eight

Westrobothnian pet definition

Noun

pet n

  1. bad worker who does not get anything out of his hands completely done
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