Petting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PETTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• stroke or pat (an animal) affectionately
• treat (someone) with affection or favouritism; pamper
• engage in sexually stimulating caressing and touching
RESIDUAL:
• polyethylene terephthalate.
• positron emission tomography, a form of tomography used especially for brain scans.
NOUN:
• amorous caressing and kissing
• a domestic or tamed animal kept for companionship or pleasure
• a person treated with special favour or affection
• treated with special attention or evoking particularly strong feelings
• used as an affectionate form of address
• a fit of sulking or ill humour
• affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to caress with the hand

Words related to PETTING

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How to use PETTING in a sentence

• Randal is rather the worse for too much praise and petting, as successful people are apt to be, so a little plain talk and rough work will do him good.
• Had Ida been an ordinary child, all this petting would have had an injurious effect upon her mind.
• Never once was the blind man impatient, while he spent hours each day in squatting on his hams and petting Jerry.
• Are petting parties dangerous? SEE Cunningham, William.
• I have watched with some amusement, and a little pain that you should imagine it requisite, your attempts at petting me during these last two weeks.
• It gets petting enough from its father, heaven knows! He has nothing else to do.
• I had to endure a good deal of petting from Jill, who would keep coming into my room to see how my poor head was.
• Hunt is grazing and grooming and petting her all day.
• Had it not been for the judicious watchfulness and careful training of her excellent mother, she might have been spoiled by his petting.
• There they saw their father picking up the white mice in his hands, and petting them.
• Politically, indeed, he had only too much power between 1832 and 1866, from the tradition which made Liberal politicians fond of petting him.
• She continued to stare at the young man with eyes that saw new things in him, while Courtland sat petting the child and telling him a story.
• Instead of petting me as usual, my aunt spoke to me seriously.
• Vincent often visited the horse in the stables, and, taking with him an apple or some pieces of sugar, spent some time there talking to and petting it.
• Once when he was gayer than his wont, and plagued her with his jesting petting, she took up the scissors and cut off a lock of his hair.
• It is the fashion in New York to discourage the increase of families, and to attempt to satisfy the half-smothered maternal instinct by petting these dumb creatures.
• There was sure to be a tonic in her petting, and Ikey got up and washed his face, looking bravely in the glass meanwhile.
• Tell him the play-horse is more easily managed by coaxing and petting, and that loud voices make it nervous and frightened.
• And, holy heaven! To think that we have been petting the worst of them as if he were General Castro or Juan Alvarado.
• Accustomed from her babyhood to petting her father and being petted by him, the girl was at first at a loss to interpret the situation.
• He had begun petting her and treating her like a sister when she was a child.
• She saw the cat woman crying and a man petting her back.
• The Boy Scout was reassured by their friendly attitude, and after petting them impartially, he chose an old-fashioned black and tan, and the two passed in.
• He pretended to be busy petting the horse, but saw Buck Tolliver slip back to his brother, and a few quick questions and answers passed between them.
• He would accept peace offerings from my hand, taking bits of sugar with care not to include my fingers, but would tolerate no petting.
• At first the petting he received at home, and the attentions of his friends, added to his sense of importance and made it endurable, but this could not continue indefinitely.
• Manuel tried to comfort her by taking the girl in his arms and petting her.
• Among the innumerable children of an advanced civilization there are those who have been spoiled by the petting to which they have been subjected.
• They should be saved from the petting of the elder girls, in whom this apparent kindness is often a selfish pleasure, bad on both sides.

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