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Petting

noun

Affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs). Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, smooching, snuggling.

Pet

verb

(past & past part. petted; pres. part. petting)

Stroke or caress gently.

Stroke or caress in an erotic manner, as during lovemaking.

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"Petting" Quotes from Famous Books

... my dear!" she said to Rosamund, kissing her affectionately, and just as though there had never been any ill-feeling between them. "How are you, you dear little thing?" she said, addressing Agnes in that petting tone which almost all women assumed toward her. "How do you do?" she said more stiffly ...

— A Modern Tomboy - A Story for Girls • L. T. Meade

... of her olden look, she glanced up into his face, but his eyes, which would not meet hers, lest they should betray themselves, were resting upon Mabel, who, on a stool across the room, was petting and caressing a kitten. 'Twas enough, and carelessly Nellie answered, "Because I want to; what ...

— 'Lena Rivers • Mary J. Holmes

... long since been eclipsed in Teddy's affections by a small Maltese terrier with a white curly coat of hair, which his fond grandmother had rather foolishly given him, the poor little animal being subjected to such rough treatment in the way of petting that it must have over and over again wished itself ...

— Teddy - The Story of a Little Pickle • J. C. Hutcheson

... attention to the bowels, and if he suffer more than usual, by keeping them rather in a relaxed state by any simple aperient, such as either castor oil, or magnesia and rhubarb, &c.; and, let me add, by attention to his temper: many children are made feverish and ill by petting and spoiling them. On this subject I cannot do better than refer you to an excellent little work entitled Abbot's Mother of Home, wherein the author proves the ...

— Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children • Pye Henry Chavasse

... election was to be carried. Why the outgoing President's felicitation on the indorsement? Why the delay of a reargument? Why the incoming President's advance exhortation in favor of the decision? These things look like the cautious patting and petting of a spirited horse preparatory to mounting him, when it is dreaded that he may give the rider a fall. And why the hasty after-indorsement of the decision by the President ...

— The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete - Constitutional Edition • Abraham Lincoln

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