petting
See also: Petting
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
petting
- present participle and gerund of pet
- I am petting my rabbit.
Noun edit
petting (countable and uncountable, plural pettings)
- The act of stroking or gently patting an animal.
- (sex) The act of kissing, stroking, etc., a person in a sexual manner.
- The act of indulging or treating as a favourite.
- 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives:
- 'Come, Jo, don't be thorny. After studying himself to a skeleton all the week, a fellow deserves petting, and ought to get it.'
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
stroking or fondling an animal
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kissing, stroking, etc., in a sexual manner
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See also edit
Finnish edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈpetːiŋː/, [ˈpe̞t̪ːiŋː]
- IPA(key): /ˈpetiŋː/, [ˈpe̞t̪iŋː]
- Rhymes: -etːiŋː
- Syllabification(key): pet‧ting
Noun edit
petting (informal)
Declension edit
Inflection of petting (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | petting | pettingit | ||
genitive | pettingin | pettingien | ||
partitive | pettingiä | pettingejä | ||
illative | pettingiin | pettingeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | petting | pettingit | ||
accusative | nom. | petting | pettingit | |
gen. | pettingin | |||
genitive | pettingin | pettingien | ||
partitive | pettingiä | pettingejä | ||
inessive | pettingissä | pettingeissä | ||
elative | pettingistä | pettingeistä | ||
illative | pettingiin | pettingeihin | ||
adessive | pettingillä | pettingeillä | ||
ablative | pettingiltä | pettingeiltä | ||
allative | pettingille | pettingeille | ||
essive | pettinginä | pettingeinä | ||
translative | pettingiksi | pettingeiksi | ||
abessive | pettingittä | pettingeittä | ||
instructive | — | pettingein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “petting”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English petting.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
petting m inan
Declension edit
Declension of petting
singular | |
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nominative | petting |
genitive | pettingu |
dative | pettingowi |
accusative | petting |
instrumental | pettingiem |
locative | pettingu |
vocative | pettingu |