pet

suomi-englanti sanakirja

pet englannista suomeksi

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

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Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects.
(RQ:Undertale)
One who is excessively loyal to a superior and receives preferential treatment.
Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling.
(RQ:Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights)
(RQ:Tatler)
To stroke or fondle (an animal).
To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously.
(quote-text)|date=18 Sep 1973|text=So we kissed + petted for about 15 mins. + he still wasn't hard, altho he acted like he was enjoying himself.
To keep or treat (an animal) as a pet.
(quote-book)|title=(w)|publisher=Macmillan and Co.|year_published=|volume=II|location=London|page=140|passage=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.
To treat (someone) as a pet; to fondle; to indulge.
(quote-journal) 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.
To be a pet.
To be peevish; to sulk.
(RQ:Feltham Resolves)
(senseid) Favourite; cherished; the focus of one's (usually positive) attention.

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{{quote-text|en|year=1886|author=Frederic Harrison|title=The Choice of Books
(quote-journal)|page=141|passage=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.
{{quote-book|en|year=1991|author=Deborah G. Douglas|title=United States Women in Aviation, 1940-1985|page=9
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(RQ:FT) have now become a pet project of the US administration and a hot topic in corporate boardrooms.
Kept or treated as a pet.
Good; ideal.
(RQ:Stevenson Treasure Island)
A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted.
(RQ:Thackeray Pendennis)
{{quote-book|en|year=1891|author=Mary Noailles Murfree|title=In the "Stranger People's" Country|location=Nebraska|year_published=2005|page=105
(RQ:Joyce Ulysses)
To be petulant or upset; to have a problem with.
(quote-song)|passage=Got suttin' in the glove compartment and I won't pet to use it
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river
fart
bed
{{quote-book|chk|year=2010|publisher=United Bible Societies|title=Ewe Kapasen God|isbn=9781920714000|section=Luke 5:24|page=110
cap (qualifier)
bad, crappy

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