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▪ I. petted, ppl. a.|ˈpɛtɪd|
[f. pet v.1 + -ed1.]
Treated as a pet or favourite, made a pet of, made much of; indulged, spoiled by petting or indulgence.
In sense often approaching the next, since the indulged child is specially apt to take offence at supposed slights.
1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc., Bonny Bessie iii, Petted things can nought but teez ye. 1821Galt Ann. Parish xii. (1850) 50 She began to cry and sob, like a petted bairn. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey iii. vi, The wind was capricious and changeable as a petted beauty. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxx, We are but like petted children, who break and throw from them the toys they have wept themselves sick for. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. ii, Eliza had been brought up by her mistress, from girlhood, as a petted and indulged favourite. 1877Bryant 3rd November 1861 ii, Tenderly the season..Spared the petted flowers that the old world gave the new. 1887Poor Nellie (1888) 143 The petted hobby of two distinguished Ministers.
▪ II. petted, a.|ˈpɛtɪd|
[f. pet n.2 + -ed2.]
In a pet; offended or sulky at feeling slighted or ill-used; piqued; given to taking pet, pettish.
1760H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) I. 149, I was petted at their neglect of us during our long illness. 1814Wordsw. Excursion i. 580 Poverty brought on a petted mood And a sore temper.
Hence ˈpettedly adv., pettishly; ˈpettedness.
1858R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma lxiv. 287 Take off his nightcap! cried Jack, pulling pettedly at the strings of the hood. 1893Whitby Gaz. 6 Oct. 3/5 Though I do not wish to show any pettedness I have now no alternative but to say that I have no proposition to make. |