Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word pet. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in pet.
Definitions and meaning of pet
pet
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /pɛt/, [pʰɛt], [pʰɛʔt]
Rhymes: -ɛt
Etymology 1
Attested since the 1500s in the sense "indulged child" and since the 1530s in the sense "animal companion". 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). Alternatively, perhaps a borrowing of Scottish Gaelicpeata, from Old Irishpetta, peta(“pet, lap-dog”), of uncertain (possibly pre-Proto-Indo-European) origin. Compare peat(“pet, darling, woman”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Noun
pet (pluralpets)
An animal kept as a companion.
(by extension) Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects. (pet rock, pet plant, etc.)
One who is excessively loyal to a superior.
Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling.
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the love of cronies, pets, and favourites
Synonyms
companion animal
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
pet (third-person singular simple presentpets, present participlepetting, simple past and past participlepettedor(nonstandard)pet)
(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.
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(archaic, intransitive) To be peevish; to sulk.
Synonyms
(to stroke or fondle an animal):pat, smooth
(to stroke or fondle amorously):feel up, grope, touch up; see also Thesaurus:fondle
(to treat as a pet):coddle, cosset; see also Thesaurus:pamper
(to be peevish):mope, pout
Derived terms
petting
Translations
Adjective
pet (not comparable)
Favourite; cherished.
a pet child
The professor seemed offended by the criticism of her pet theory.
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Some young lady's pet curate.
Kept or treated as a pet.
pet rock
Derived terms
pet project
pet rock
Translations
References
Etymology 2
Clipping of petulance.
Noun
pet (pluralpets)
A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted.
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.
Etymology 3
Clipping of petition.
Noun
pet (pluralpets)
Abbreviation of petition.
Etymology 4
Clipping of petal.
Noun
pet (pluralpets)
(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
See also
pet coke
Anagrams
EPT, PTE, Pte, TPE, Tep, ept
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitanpet), from Latinpēditum (compare Frenchpet, Spanishpedo, Italianpeto).
Pronunciation
(Balearic) IPA(key): /ˈpət/
(Central) IPA(key): /ˈpɛt/
(Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈpet/
Noun
petm (pluralpets)
(colloquial) fart
Related terms
petar
petat
llufaf
Chuukese
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishbed.
Noun
pet
bed
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
Etymology
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