Pet vs Kiss - What's the difference?
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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
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.
(archaic) To be a pet.
Favourite; cherished.
* F. Harrison
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:
(lb) To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to express love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:Hekissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, / That at the parting all the church echoed.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ΒΆ, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
(lb) To touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:Like fire and powder, / Which as they kiss consume.
* (1809-1892)
*:Rose, rose and clematis, / Trail and twine and clasp and kiss .
(lb) Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.
(lb) To mark a cross (X) after one's name on a card, etc.
A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
An 'X' mark placed at the end of a letter or other type of message.
A type of filled chocolate candy, shaped as if someone had kissed the top. See (w, Hershey's Kisses).
Pet is a related term of kiss.
As an acronym pet
is (organic compound) polyethylene terephthalate.As a phrase kiss is
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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)- the love of cronies, pets , and favourites
Synonyms
* companion animalReferences
Verb
(pett)- His daughter was petted and spoiled.
- (Feltham)
Derived terms
* pet cemetery * pet name * pet peeve * pet project * pet shop * pet store * petting * teacher's petAdjective
(-)- a pet child
- a pet theory
- Some young lady's pet curate.
Etymology 2
.Noun
(en noun)- 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.