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▪ I. petter, n.|ˈpɛtə(r)|
[f. pet v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who pets or indulges.
1863N. & Q. 3rd Ser. III. 240 The author must..be a petter of all kinds of pets.
2. One who pets (pet v.1 b); one who engages in petting (petting vbl. n. 2).
1925College Humor Aug. 77/1 Have a nice evening? Jean's some high-type petter, isn't she? 1930F. Dell Love in Machine Age ix. 170 Science's adjuration to the petters is only: ‘You really must get some food and sleep, my dears!’ 1931F. L. Allen Only Yesterday v. 101 The vendors of another picture promised ‘neckers, petters, white kisses, red kisses, pleasure-mad daughters, sensation-craving mothers’. 1931Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Oct. 183 One finds oneself extremely dubious about this contention that the modern adolescent ‘petter’ and ‘demi-vierge’ have discovered for themselves a satisfactory way of acquiring the adequate pre-marital emotional education. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §443/13 Heavy necker or petter.
▪ II. petter, v.|ˈpɛtə(r)|
[Echoic: cf. pitter.]
To emit the sound natural to a grasshopper.
1849Tait's Mag. XVI. 106 The grasshopper was pettering his monotonous contralto. |