Dictionary Entry
pet
pet is a 3-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.
- 2noun
Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child.
- 3noun
A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness.
- 4adjective
Petted; indulged; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet lamb; a pet theory.
- 5transitive verb
To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was petted and spoiled.
- 6intransitive verb
To be a pet.
- 7noun
using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain)
- 8noun
a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement
- 9noun
a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight)
- 10noun
a special loved one
- 11verb
stroke or caress in an erotic manner, as during lovemaking
- 12verb
stroke or caress gently
"pet the lamb"
- 13adjective
preferred above all others and treated with partiality
"the favored child"
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