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het | pet |

As a pronoun het

is she.

As an acronym pet is

(organic compound) polyethylene terephthalate.

het

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

  • (countable, slang, ) A heterosexual person.
  • (uncountable, fandom slang) Fan fiction]] based on [[celebrity, celebrities or fictional characters involved in an opposite-sex romantic and/or sexual relationship.
  • * 2005 , Rhiannon Bury, Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online , Peter Lang (2005), ISBN 0820471186, page 207:
  • Mary Ellen Curtin presented a paper at the 2002 Popular Culture Association conference in which she studied fanfiction archives to discover that black characters appeared far less in both het and slash fiction than white or even Latino/a characters.
  • * 2006 , Catherine Driscoll, "One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance", in Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays (eds. Karen Hellekson & Kristina Busse), McFarland & Company (2006), ISBN 9780786426409, page 84:
  • The vast majority of fan fiction is het or slash, and these types are usually defined against each other as approaches to romance and porn, marginalizing gen as something outside of the dominant concerns of fan fiction.
  • * 2010 , Rebecca Ward Black, "Just Don't Call Them Cartoons: The New Literacy Spaces of Anime, Manga, and Fanfiction", in Handbook of Research on New Literacies (eds. Julie Coiro, Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear, & Donald J. Leu), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2010), ISBN 9780805856514, page 595:
  • Other studies explore why some women write het'' , or fictions with heterosexual pairings of certain couples, within canons such as ''Star Trek Voyager that generally inspire slash fiction (Somogyi, 2002).
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  • Synonyms
    * (fan fiction) hetfic

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang) Heterosexual.
  • Etymology 2

    Strong conjugation of heat

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dialect) (heat)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dialect) Heated.
  • Derived terms
    * het up

    Anagrams

    * ----

    pet

    English

    Etymology 1

    Attested since the 1500s in the sense "indulged child" and since the 1530s in the sense "animal companion"..'>citation The verb is derived from the noun.

    Noun

    (wikipedia pet) {{ picdic , image=Pudel miniatura 342.jpg , detail1= }} (en noun)
  • An animal kept as a companion.
  • One who is excessively loyal to a superior.
  • Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling.
  • * Tatler
  • the love of cronies, pets , and favourites
    Synonyms
    * companion animal

    References

    Verb

    (pett)
  • To stroke or fondle (an animal).
  • (informal) To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously.
  • (informal) Of two or more people, to stroke and fondle one another amorously.
  • (dated) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge.
  • His daughter was petted and spoiled.
  • (archaic) To be a pet.
  • (Feltham)
    Derived terms
    * pet cemetery * pet name * pet peeve * pet project * pet shop * pet store * petting * teacher's pet

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Favourite; cherished.
  • a pet child
    a pet theory
  • * F. Harrison
  • Some young lady's pet curate.

    Etymology 2

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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

    .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Etymology 4

    .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Geordie) A term of endearment usually applied to women and children.
  • References

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    Anagrams

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