petting
Appearance
See also: Petting
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]petting
- present participle and gerund of pet
- I am petting my rabbit.
Derived terms
[edit]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): /ˈpetːiŋ/, [ˈpe̞t̪ːiŋ]
- IPA(key): /ˈpetiŋ/, [ˈpe̞t̪iŋ]
- Rhymes: -etːiŋ
- Syllabification(key): pet‧ting
- Hyphenation(key): pet‧ting
Noun
[edit]petting (informal)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of petting (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 3 July 2023
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English petting.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]petting m inan
Declension
[edit]Declension of petting
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | petting |
| genitive | pettingu |
| dative | pettingowi |
| accusative | petting |
| instrumental | pettingiem |
| locative | pettingu |
| vocative | pettingu |
Further reading
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- fi:Sex
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