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Pet. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Pet subs. (colloquial).—1.  An angry mood; a tantrum; a fling of temper.—B. E. (c. 1696); BAILEY (1748); GROSE (1785). Hence, TO BE PETTED = to take offence.

1   1548.  BARCLAY, Eclogue, iv.        Of rascolde poetes yet is a shamfull rable … Though all their cunning be scantly worth a PET.

2   1634.  MILTON, Comus [Aldine], 721. Should in a PET of temperance feed.

3   1685.  SIR P. HUME, Narrative of Occurrences in the Expedition of the Earl of Argyle, 42. As wee wer to goe, several gentlemen inclined to have gone with us; but the Erle PETTING at it, forbare and stayed there.

4   1749.  SMOLLETT, Gil Blas [ROUTLEDGE], 109. They may take themselves off in a PET sometimes, the itch of writing brings them back again.

5   1766.  H. BROOKE, The Fool of Quality, I. 193. I would have sent to enquire after them, but I was PETTED at their neglect of us during our long illness.

6   2.  (old: now recognised).—A darling: also in sarcasm. [In quot. 1607 = a delicate young thing.] Also PEAT. Whence, as verb. = to fondle.

7   d. 1520.  DUNBAR [T. L. KINGTON-OLIPHANT, The New English, i. 361–3. Dunbar wrote … in Northern English…. There are the Celtic words tartan … PET (darling) … tedder (tether), brat].

8   1562–77.  GASCOIGNE, Flowers [CHALMERS, English Poets, ii. 485].        I grooped in thy pocket pretty PEATE, And found a Lemman which I looked not.

9   1578.  King Leir [NARES]. To see that proud pert PEAT, our youngest sister.

10   1581.  B. RICH, Farewell to Militarie Profession. Haue you founde your tongue now pretiePEATE, then wee must haue an Almon for Parrat: how durst thou Strompette chalenge me to bee thy Father?

11   1593.  SHAKESPEARE, Taming of the Shrew, i. 1.          Kath.  A pretty PEAT! ’tis best Put finger in the eye.

12   1605.  JONSON, CHAPMAN, &c., Eastward Hoe, v. 1 [Old Plays (REED), iv. 279]. God’s my life, you are a PEAT indeed!

13   1607.  DEKKER and WEBSTER, Westward Ho! ii. 2. Mon. … She’s not troubled with the green sickness still, is she? Bird. The yellow jaundice … troth she’s as good a PEAT.

14   1629.  Z. BOYD, The Last Battell of the Soul in Death, 324. Grosse euill thoughts, fedde and PETTED with yielding and consent.

15   d. 1631.  DONNE, Poems, 90, ‘Elegy XVI.’                    The wench a pretty PEAT, And (by her eye) well fitting for the seat.

16   1632.  MASSINGER, The Maid of Honour, ii. 2. You are a pretty PEAT, indifferent fair too.

17   1749.  SMOLLETT, Gil Blas [ROUTLEDGE (1866), 168]. I was her PET, and came in for the caresses of all the men that frequented the house.

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