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Definition of Pet

Pet

A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.

Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child.

A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness.

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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Pet Quotations

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
George Carlin

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.
Jimi Hendrix

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.
Steven Wright

I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.
Rodney Dangerfield

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
Billy Graham

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
Chuck Palahniuk

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
Moliere

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
Ziggy Marley

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
Billy Connolly

I don't have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation.
Whoopi Goldberg

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.
Cher

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Konrad Lorenz

When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
Natalie Portman

I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well, but you can't really pet them.
Tom Felton

I was in New York and I walked into this pet store and came out with a dog.
Beverley Mitchell

Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want.
Connie Stevens

We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.
Max Cannon

The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.
Chris Chocola

I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.
Kristin Davis

I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
Karl Pilkington

There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it.
Michael Bay

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.
Nicholas D. Kristof

It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.
Gary Neville

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.
Tony Snow

I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.
Kirsty Gallacher

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.
George Eads

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.
Wilbur Wright

To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
Karl Pilkington

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.
Nick Lampson

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.
Frederick Pollock

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Pet Translations

pet in Dutch is koesteren, troetelen, vertroetelen
pet in French is dorloter, choyer
pet in German is streicheln, Lieblingstier, Liebling

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