Petting
['pɛtɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pet
Checker: Phelps
Examples
- To go petting Papa and helping you, just to wheedle you into liking him. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- No, no, not so bad as that, said Lydgate, giving up remonstrance and petting her resignedly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He will make a fine man, if not spoiled by petting, replied her mother. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She is still petting and patting it when the cows come in to be milked. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I believe all the petting that is given them does not make them happy. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was not only a pleasure, but a duty to answer them, for the poor fellow was forlorn, and needed petting, since Jo persisted in being stonyhearted. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- After studying himself to a skeleton all the week, a fellow deserves petting and ought to get it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Edited by Linda