Definitions for pets

pets pet

Spelling: [pet]
IPA: /pɛt/

Pets is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in pets (epst).

Definitions for pets

noun

  1. any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately.
  2. a person especially cherished or indulged; favorite:
  3. a thing particularly cherished.
  4. a fit of peevishness, sulking, or bad mood.

adjective

  1. kept or treated as a pet:
  2. especially cherished or indulged, as a child or other person.
  3. favorite; most preferred:
  4. showing fondness or affection:

verb (used with object)

  1. to fondle or caress:
  2. to treat as a pet; indulge.

verb (used without object)

  1. Informal. to engage in kissing, caressing, and other sexual activity with one’s partner, but not sexual intercourse.
  2. to be peevish; sulk.

Origin of pets

1500-10; (noun) perhaps back formation from pet lamb cade lamb, shortened variant of petty lamb little lamb (see petty); (v.) derivative of the noun

Examples for pets

It had been the dear pet plan they had nursed in common with all the parish.

This season is all about monitoring posture, scrutinizing sun exposure, even exploring the health of a pet.

I did not know you had been in a yard before—says you were the pet at Elmore's in London.

Poor Mart Colson would not have known what to do with a pet name.

As he describes why he plans to spend the rest of his days in Kisangani, a pet parrot gnaws on his Rolex.

Between the two he contented himself with the pet name of Saffy.

Owing to its popularity as a pet, it has spread across the Pacific to China.

Republicans have a host of other pet bills to restrict abortion access in the context of the new health-care legislation.

When POTUS asked Malia if she wanted to pet the turkey before he granted its reprieve, she responded appropriately: “Nah.”

She had been a pet all her life, and, like most pets, her eye partook of the human quality.

Word Value for pets
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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