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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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... at any show of brotherly emotion. The Lampton men were fine lovers; no woman had ever found them wanting in the art. But it was part of their tradition to suppress all outward signs of family affection. Instinct told him that some caresses and a petting were what his sister longed for. For weeks she had been robbed of a lover's devotion, a very fine lover, who had filled her days with romance and her ...

— There was a King in Egypt • Norma Lorimer

... girls of eighteen Priscilla had learned to kiss and be kissed on every possible occasion; in the exotic and not at all uncommon pleasure of "petting" she had acquired infinite wisdom and complete disillusionment. But in all her "petting parties" on the "Mayflower" and in Plymouth she had found no Puritan who held her interest beyond the first kiss, and she had lately reverted in sheer boredom to her boarding school habit of drinking ...

— A Parody Outline of History • Donald Ogden Stewart

... will want much petting and caressing, and she must foster his love by lavishing on him much fondness, and ignoring amours as but the mischievous results of his ...

— Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia • Isaac G. Briggs

... a Scotchman with a little literature very disagreeable. He is a superficial German or a dull Frenchman. The Scotch will attribute merit to people of any nation rather than the English; the English have a morbid habit of petting and praising foreigners of any sort, to the unjust disparagement of their ...

— Specimens of the Table Talk of S.T.Coleridge • Coleridge

... the close of the great naval engagement of the 17th of September, 1894, a hawk alighted on the fighting-mast of the Japanese cruiser Takachiho, and suffered itself to be taken and fed. After much petting, this bird of good omen was presented to the Emperor. Falconry was a great feudal sport in Japan, and hawks were finely trained. The hawk is now likely to become, more than ever before in Japan, a symbol ...

— Kokoro - Japanese Inner Life Hints • Lafcadio Hearn

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