Definition of "petted" [petted]

• Simple past tense and past participle of pet. (verb)

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• "He did not fancy occupying the back bedroom while Chip reigned in his sunny south room, waited on, petted (Dunk applied the term petted) and amused indefatigably by the Little Doctor."
• "Yet Mrs Adams had not been brought up in petted indolence, or shut from the sun and air, for fear of injury to her beauty, or her gracefulness."
• "They want to feel petted, which is in their nature and you cannot blame them for it."