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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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... this was the most difficult resolve of her life, but it was also one of the best, since it removed us from the motley, confusing impressions of the city, and the petting we received at home, and transferred us to the surroundings most suitable for ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... and older than he really was; as if rest or change would do him good; as if he required luxuries and petting. She sighed, and wondered whether the bees would enable her to buy him such things, for though the house was well furnished and apparently surrounded with wealth, they were extremely poor. Yet she did not care for money for their own household use so much as to give him the ...

— Hodge and His Masters • Richard Jefferies

... which we could prevent, we do not merely tolerate but become accomplices in wrong-doing. I am of opinion that subjects are made good by bad, I mean, by harsh and disagreeable Superiors. The severity of a mother is more wholesome for a child than the petting of an indulgent nurse, and the firmness of a father is always more useful to his children than their mother's tenderness. The rougher the file the better it smoothes the iron, and the more rust it rubs off; the hotter ...

— The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales • Jean Pierre Camus

... who rebounded from the routine of their former lives into a little extra rapidity. One and all—for the eyes they sought would not have looked upon them else—they had gone into the army; had fought and wrought well; and now with little to do, boon companionship and any amount of petting, they were paying for it. The constant strain of excitement produced much dissipation certainly—but it seldom took the reprehensible form of rowdyism and debauch. Some men drank deeply—at dinners, at balls and at bar-rooms; some gambled, ...

— Four Years in Rebel Capitals - An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death • T. C. DeLeon

... be able to remember you if I try— by Teddy," she answered, without looking at him, and devoted herself to petting ...

— A Texas Ranger • William MacLeod Raine

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