mother's pet
noun
A spoilt or delicate child; (formerly also) Scottish †the youngest child of a family ( obsolete ).
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in John Hamilton Reynolds (1794–1852), writer and lawyer.
- apparat
- apparatchik
- apparatus
- apparatus criticus
- apparel
- apparent
- apparent horizon
- apparently
- apparent magnitude
- apparent motion
- apparent movement
- apparent solar time
- apparent time
- apparent wind
- apparition
- apparitional
- appeal
- appealable
- appeal court
- appealer
- appealing
- appealingly
- appeals court
- appear
- appearance