Crossword clues for pet
pet
- Word with name or project
- Word before project or peeve
- Word before parrot or project
- Word before name or project
- Word before food or theory
- Word before "peeve" or "project"
- Word after class or teacher's
- Water-bowl user (or the start of a film and TV actor's split personality)
- Water bowl visitor
- Water bowl user
- Water bowl drinker
- Veterinarian's patient
- Vet's charge
- Vet visitor
- Variety of peeve
- Type of name or rock
- Turtle, sometimes
- Toy one plays with, e.g.?
- Toy in the living room?
- Toto, for Dorothy
- Tiger on "The Brady Bunch"
- The Ramones "Sematary"
- Teacher's _____
- Teacher's ___ (favorite pupil)
- Teacher's ___ (favorite kid in a classroom)
- Teacher's ___ (favored student)
- Tarantula or scorpion, for some
- Stroke fondly, as a cat
- Spot, to Munster
- Spot for a family, quite possibly
- Spirit-lifter, perhaps
- Spa visitor who doesn't pay the bill?
- Source of hair on one's furniture
- Soothe, in a way
- Something preferred
- Something a zoo animal isn't
- Someone's favourite
- Socks for Clinton, e.g
- Snowball II the cat on "The Simpsons," for example
- Snoopy, to Charlie
- Snake, to some
- Smallest member of the family, often
- Show affection to, as a dog
- Shelter acquisition
- Scooby-Doo, to Shaggy
- Santa's Little Helper, to the Simpsons
- Santa's Little Helper, to Bart Simpson
- Sandy, to Little Orphan Annie
- Rover or Tabby
- Rover or Spot
- Rock, for some
- Rock or peeve
- Rex, to Reagan
- Reward Rover
- Responsibility lesson for a child
- Responsibility for a house sitter, maybe
- Reassure, as a dog
- Rat, to some
- Raccoon, at times
- Preferred thing
- Poodle, parrot, or Persian
- Pomeranian or parakeet
- Pluto, to Mickey Mouse
- Pluto, to Mickey
- Play with a pussy
- Pirate's parrot, e.g
- Pig, to some
- Pierre's monogram
- Perfect Circle song you feed?
- Parrot, perhaps
- Pampered creature
- Only Canadian PM with message on the moon
- One that eats from bowls
- One often talked down to?
- One often sleeping on the floor
- One may have a sitter
- One may be adopted
- One is in each theme entry
- One entering through a small door, perhaps
- Often furry adoptee
- Odie, to Jon Arbuckle
- Odie, to John
- Nonhuman member of the family
- Microchipped family member, perhaps
- Many a veterinary patient
- Many a vet visitor
- Man's best friend e.g
- Macaw, for some
- Like a preferred theory
- Like a favored project
- Lap dog, for one
- Lamb, to Mary
- Lab in one's home, say
- Lab at home?
- Kitty, e.g
- Kitty-cat, e.g
- Kitty or Fido
- Kitty or doggie
- Kitty or canary
- Kitty cat, e.g
- Kitten or parakeet, often
- Kitten or parakeet
- King's "--- Sematary"
- King's ''___ Sematary''
- Irish terrier, e.g
- Instant member of the family
- Indulged one
- Indoor animal
- Iguana or chihuahua
- Household pooch, e.g
- Household friend
- Household creature
- Household companion
- Housecat, for example
- Housecat, e.g
- House cat, for example
- House cat or goldfish
- House animal
- Home brightener
- Home animal
- Hamster, perhaps
- Hamster, maybe
- Hamster or hound
- Hamster or gerbil, sometimes
- Hamster or gerbil, e.g
- Hamster or canary
- Guinea pig, maybe
- Guinea pig or goldfish, say
- Guinea pig or cat, for example
- Guinea pig often
- Goldfish or snake
- Goldfish or hamster, often
- Goldfish or guinea pig, for example
- Goldfish or guinea pig
- Golden retriever or goldfish, for example
- Gerbil or kitty, for some
- Gerbil or hamster
- Gerbil or goldfish, e.g
- Gerbil or goldfish
- Gently stroke
- Garfield or Odie, to Jon
- Furry pal
- Furry member of the family
- Furry household member
- Friend with soft fur, often
- Friend who might be furry
- Friend needing feeding
- Four-footed member of the household
- Fluffy or Fido
- Fit of sulkiness
- Fish, e.g
- Ferret, perhaps
- Ferret, maybe
- Ferret, for one
- Feistiest PM's monogram
- Favorite, as a project
- Favorite beast
- Famous Canadian monogram
- Family's animal
- Family member who may eat off the floor
- Family friend, often
- Family favorite
- Family dog, say
- Family dog, for example
- Family dog, e.g
- Family canine
- Extra cost for an airline passenger
- Eccentric's heir, perhaps
- Eccentric's heir, maybe
- Doggie or kitty
- Dog, often
- Dog, cat, or parakeet
- Dog, cat, or fish, perhaps
- Dog or hamster, for example
- Dog or goldfish
- Dog or gerbil, perhaps
- Dog or cat, usually
- Dog or cat in the house
- Dog or cat e.g
- Dishwalla "___ Your Friends"
- Dino, to the Flintstones
- Dino, e.g
- Designated critter, often
- Dear family friend
- Constant request from a four-year-old
- Companion of a kind
- Companion critter
- Collie or cockatoo
- Cockapoo or cockatoo, maybe
- Clinton's Socks, e.g
- Chow in the house?
- Cherished beast
- Champ or Major, for the Bidens
- Certain companion
- Cat; perhaps a rat; probably not a bat
- Cat or hamster
- Cat or gerbil, e.g
- Cat or dog, often
- Cat or canary, e.g
- Caress — budgie, perhaps?
- Car closer
- Canary or kitty
- Canary or hamster, sometimes
- Canary or cat
- Caged bird, e.g
- Bucky Katt or Satchel Pooch, to Rob Wilco
- Brian the dog on "Family Guy," for instance
- Brian on "Family Guy," e.g
- Bo, in the Obama family
- Bo, for the First Family
- Bo, e.g
- Bird or basset e.g
- Bird in a cage, often
- Beloved family animal
- Astro, Scooby-Doo or Dino
- Astro or Asta, e.g
- Asta, to Nick
- Apple of one's eye
- Animal that has an owner
- Animal shelter acquisition
- Animal often kept in the home
- Animal member of the family
- Animal kept in the house
- Animal in the family
- Alpo or Whiskas eater
- Adoptee, maybe
- Adoptee from a shelter
- Adopted cat, e.g
- A cat or a dog might be one
- "Penthouse" girl
- "Heart" ___ Shop Boys
- "Doggie in the window."
- "Always on My Mind" ___ Shop Boys
- "___ Sounds" (The Beach Boys)
- "___ Sematary" (1989 horror movie)
- '70s rock?
- --- Shop Boys
- ___ store (place to buy an animal)
- ___ Shop Boys (duo who sang "West End Girls")
- ___ Shop Boys ("Go West" band)
- ___ Shop Boys
- ___ project (rescuing dogs, say, for a dog lover)
- ___ project
- ___ peeve (endless barking, perhaps)
- Disillusioned vets might admit to this particular dislike
- Dearie
- Stroke gently
- Sweetheart
- Fondle the fur of
- Spoon
- Caress amorously
- Fit of pique
- Dear one
- Letterman's Stupid _____ Tricks
- Sulking fit
- 51-Across, for one
- Housebroken animal
- Favorite, as a theory
- Darling
- 43-Across offering
- Dino, to Fred and Wilma
- Canoodle
- Astro or Asta, e.g.
- Sulky state
- Manx of the house?
- Four-footed friend
- Most preferred
- Prized
- Treat like a dog?
- Pique
- Lovey
- Dearest
- Favorite project
- Honeybun
- Hamster, e.g.
- Special favorite
- Collar wearer, often
- It may be unleashed
- Penthouse centerfold
- Fair-haired boy
- Kind of theory
- Honeybunch
- Collared one
- A cat, but rarely a rat
- Spaying customer?
- Kind of rock
- Animal acquired from an animal shelter, say
- Teacher's favorite student
- Kind of project
- Resident ignored by census takers
- Sitter's charge, maybe
- Hamster, for one
- Furry adoptee
- Apt rhyme for 26-Down
- Doll
- Cat or gerbil, e.g.
- Iguana, maybe
- Adoption option
- Fried with four legs
- Irritable state
- Kitty, e.g.
- Adopt-a-thon adoptee
- Teacher's ___ (classroom favorite)
- See 90-Across
- Responsibility of many a house sitter
- Animal with a collar
- Dog, cat or maybe a parrot
- Dog, cat or hamster
- Family member who was probably adopted
- Kind of classic rock?
- A special loved one
- Using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain)
- A domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement
- Four-footed family member
- Cosset a corgi
- Peevish mood
- Bushes' Millie, e.g.
- Kind of peeve
- Snit
- Socks, to Chelsea
- Millie or Socks
- Term of affection
- Huff
- Gerbil, for one
- Fit of peevishness
- Nick and Nora's Asta, e.g.
- Term of endearment
- Intemperate fit
- Cherished one
- Sandy, to Annie
- Dora Spenlow's Jip
- Peevish fit
- Like a faddist's rock
- Display of temper
- Nana, to Wendy
- Coddle
- Fair-haired one
- Fala, for one
- Daisy, to Dagwood
- Fala or Checkers
- Asta, to Nora
- The Bushes' Millie, e.g.
- Spot or Tabby
- Irish terrier, e.g.
- Ill humor
- Tizzy
- Resident animal
- R.W.R.'s Lucky, e.g.
- Fido or Fluffy
- Goldfish, e.g
- Cherished animal
- Caress - budgie, perhaps?
- Sulk pretty regularly
- Favourite thermoplastic polymer resin
- Favourite school subject, first on timetable
- Favourite exercises taking brief time
- Family animal
- Regularly upbeat, much-liked
- Perry the Platypus, to Phineas and Ferb
- Bad mood
- Lassie, for one
- Parrot or puppy
- Furry friend
- Apple polisher
- Teacher's fave
- You name it
- Rub the right way?
- Household animal
- Vet's patient, often
- Shelter adoptee
- Litter box user
- Canary, e.g
- Puppy or parrot
- Pampered one
- Humane Society adoptee
- Household member
- Home body?
- Fido, e.g
- Family adoptee
- Cat or dog, for example
- Stroke lovingly, or the object of a loving stroke
- Parakeet or poodle
- Most favored
- Hamster, e.g
- Gerbil, e.g., for a class
- Garfield, to Jon
- Domestic animal
- Cat, often
- Animal companion
- ___ peeve (particular annoyance)
- Veterinary patient
- Poodle or parakeet
- Lab in one's home, e.g
- Guinea pig, often
- Guinea pig, e.g
- Favorite one
- Domesticated animal
- Creature comfort?
- Classroom favorite
- Adopted family member
- "___ Sematary" (Stephen King book)
- ___ name
- Vet's visitor
- Trudeau monogram
- Shelter rescuee
- Kennel's client
- Iguana, for some
- Household cat or dog
- Housebroken companion
- House cat, e.g
- Favorite in class
- Favored student
- Dog, e.g
- Dino, for the Flintstones
- Companion animal
- Comforting companion
- Collar sporter
- Cockatoo or cockapoo
- Chihuahua, for one
- Beloved animal
- Animal friend
- __ scan
- __ name
- Yours may be adopted
- Your dog or cat, for example
- Visitor to the vet
- Veterinarian's visitor
- Teacher's ___ (favorite student)
- Spot, maybe
- Someone’s favourite
- Shih tzu or cockapoo, e.g
- Puppy, say
- Poodle or parrot
- Parrot or parakeet, perhaps
- Parakeet, perhaps
- Parakeet, often
- Pal with paws
- Pal with a paw
- Obedience school attendee
- Member of the household that visits the vet
- Letterman's stupid ___ tricks
- Last name on many a holiday card
- Lassie or Benji, e.g
- Kitty, maybe
- King's "___ Sematary"
- Kind of charity
- Kennel guest
- Kennel client
- It's kept for companionship
- It may do a stupid trick on TV
- It may be housebroken
- Indoor animal, often
- Iguana or Chihuahua, e.g
- Household critter
- Home lab?
- Hamster or parakeet
- Hamster or dog
- Guinea pig, for some
- Goldfish or gerbil, for example
- Furry or feathered friend
- Fluffy, perhaps
- Fluffy or Spot
- Flea collar wearer
- Fido or Felix
- Favored one
- Family cat, e.g
- Fala, to F.D.R
- Dog or cat, or what you do to it
- Dino, Astro or Scooby-Doo
- Concern for Ace Ventura
- Class favorite
- Cat, dog, or hamster
- Boxer, for example
- Bo, to the Obamas
- Bad attitude
- Astro, to the Jetsons
- Astro, Scooby-Doo or Dino, e.g
- Astro or Dino, e.g
- Animal you feed
- Animal kept for companionship
- Animal in the house
- Adoptee, perhaps
- Acquisition from a shelter
- "West End Girls" band ___ Shop Boys
- "___ Sematary" (Stephen King novel)
- ____ peeve
- ___ Shop Boys (British music duo)
- ___ Shop Boys ("West End Girls" band)
- You may make an Instagram account for one
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
pet \pet\ (p[e^]t), n. [Formerly peat, perhaps from Ir. peat, akin to Gael. peata.]
A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.
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Any person especially cherished and indulged; a fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child.
The love of cronies, pets, and favorites.
--Tatler. [Prob. fr. Pet a fondling, hence, the behavior or humor of a spoiled child.] A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness. ``In a pet she started up.''
--Tennyson.Any animal kept as a companion, usually in or around one's home, typically domesticated and cared for attentively and often affectionately. Distinguished from animals raised for food or to perform useful tasks, as a draft animal.
pet \pet\, a. Petted; indulged; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet lamb; a pet theory; a pet animal.
Some young lady's pet curate.
--F. Harrison.
Pet cock. [Perh. for petty cock.] (Mach.) A little faucet in a water pipe or pump, to let air out, or at the end of a steam cylinder, to drain it.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"tamed animal," originally in Scottish and northern England dialect (and exclusively so until mid-18c.), of unknown origin. Sense of "indulged child" (c.1500) is recorded slightly earlier than that of "animal kept as a favorite" (1530s), but the latter may be the primary meaning. Probably associated with or influenced by petty. As a term of endearment by 1849. Teacher's pet is attested from 1890. Pet-shop from 1928.\n\nKnow nature's children all divide her care;\n
The fur that warms a monarch warm'd a bear.\n
While man exclaims, 'See all things for my use!'\n
'See man for mine!' replies a pamper'd goose: \n
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[Alexander Pope, "Essay on Man"]
"peevishness, offense at feeling slighted," 1580s, in phrase take the pet "take offense." Perhaps from pet (n.1) on a similar notion to that in American English that gets my goat, but the underlying notion is obscure, and the form of the original expression makes this doubtful. This word seems to have been originally a southern English term, while pet (n.1) was northern and Scottish.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
Favourite; cherished. n. 1 An animal kept as a companion. 2 One who is excessively loyal to a superior. 3 Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling. v
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1 (context transitive English) To stroke or fondle (an animal). 2 (context transitive informal English) To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously. 3 (context intransitive informal English) Of two or more people, to stroke and fondle one another amorously. 4 (context dated transitive English) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge. 5 (context archaic intransitive English) To be a pet. Etymology 2
n. A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted. Etymology 3
n. (abbreviation of petition English) Etymology 4
n. (context Geordie English) A term of endearment usually applied to women and children.
WordNet
n. a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement
a special loved one [syn: darling, favorite, favourite, dearie, deary, ducky]
a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight)
using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain) [syn: positron emission tomography]
Wikipedia
A pet or companion animal is an animal kept primarily for a person's company or protection, as opposed to working animals, sport animals, livestock, and laboratory animals, which are kept primarily for performance, agricultural value, or research. The most popular pets are noted for their attractive appearances and their loyal or playful personalities.
Pets provide their owners (or guardians) physical and emotional benefits. Walking a dog can supply both the human and pet with exercise, fresh air, and social interaction. Pets can give companionship to elderly adults who do not have adequate social interaction with other people, as well as other people that are living alone. There is a medically approved class of therapy animals, mostly dogs or cats, that are brought to visit confined humans. Pet therapy utilizes trained animals and handlers to achieve specific physical, social, cognitive, and emotional goals with patients.
The most popular pets are likely dogs and cats, but people also keep house rabbits, ferrets; rodents such as gerbils, hamsters, chinchillas, fancy rats, and guinea pigs; avian pets, such as canaries, parakeets, corvids and parrots; reptile pets, such as turtles, lizards and snakes; aquatic pets, such as goldfish, tropical fish and frogs; and arthropod pets, such as tarantulas and hermit crabs.
Some scholars and animal rights organizations have raised concern over pet-keeping with regards to the autonomy and objectification of nonhuman animals.
Pet is the debut album by New Zealand rock band, Fur Patrol, released in 2000.
Pet is an upcoming 2016 United States/Spain psychological thriller film written by Jeremy Slater, directed by Carles Torrens, and starring Dominic Monaghan, Ksenia Solo, Jennette McCurdy, and Nathan Parsons. The project debuted at the South by Southwest Film festival during March 2016.
Usage examples of "pet".
Stalinist lapels and hemlines into spangly kitsch, the Day-Glo designer industrial-waste outlets vending pet elements from beyond the actinide seriesin all this synthetic needs-mongering, Kraft and Linda stumble upon a bookstore.
Carl was bent over the benchtop in his lab, carefully pi petting a sucrose-laden DNA solution tinted with a blue indicator dye into a row of tiny slots in an agarose gel.
Frank had dated her briefly in high school, but the romance never advanced past petting, and Peggy had married a real estate agent the same month Frank went into the academy.
His parents took him to a hospital and they performed a CAT scan and an MRI scan and a PET scan and digital subtraction angiography and they found nothing wrong.
One lab looked like a pet shop given over to aquarists with a couple hundred fish tanks lining the walls and situated on most of the tables, as well.
Xavier uproots my pet araucaria and bears it across the garden into the conservatory I protest at the top of my voice.
She loved her hometown the way one loves a loyal family pet during its arthritic, bad-smelling final years.
Lily Bede spent money like this on every meal and hosted conventions for impecunious suffragists, and collected antique race horses as pets, she must be damn near running the estate into the ground.
It was her pet project, the prototype of several other homes for juveniles that she hinted The Foundation might be able to finance with the generous bequest she might leave us.
When this lady learned that Biche had been a pet of the king, she at first refused to give it up: and only after several demands, and with much difficulty, could she be induced to return it.
Jay had spotted her, Birdie glared at him, obviously having overheard his disparaging remarks regarding her pet.
Bozo has gone back to the wild, with most of her litter, and Bozo, together with one of his male pups, feeling the need for human companionship again, now that the urge for domesticity had waned, took to haunting the gates of Shondakor, and finally deigned to join us in the palace as a pet of the entire court.
My grandmother, Marzia, whose pet I was, came to me, bathed my face with cold water, and, unknown to everyone in the house, took me with her in a gondola as far as Muran, a thickly-populated island only half a league distant from Venice.
Pippinella, the green canary--half canary, half greenfinch--whom Doctor Dolittle had bought from a pet shop, and how she became the prima donna of his opera company.
Some courtiers carried their pet cats on their arms: highly bred miniature lynxes, caracals, and ocelots, trained to sit demurely at plateside and daintily share the feast.