Petted vs Groped - What's the difference?

petted | groped |

As verbs the difference between petted and groped

is that petted is past tense of pet while groped is past tense of grope.

petted

English

Verb

(head)

(pet)

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

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

Anagrams

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groped

English

Verb

(head)

(grope)

grope

English

Verb

(lb) To feel with or use the hands; to handle.

To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.

*(Joseph Stevens Buckminster) (1751-1812)

*:to grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities of a worldly life

*1898 , , (Moonfleet), Ch.4:

*:Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.

*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually.

(lb) To examine; to test; to sound.

:(Chaucer)

*Genevan Testament ((w) xxiv)

*:''Felix gropeth him, thinking to have a bribe.

Noun

(en noun)

(informal) An act of groping, especially sexually.

(obsolete) an iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel

* 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 544.

Gropes appear to be pieces of iron binding together the inner joint of the fitting, and grope-nails to have been used for fastening these to the wood.