pet
/pɛt/ noun C2- A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted.
Plural pets
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Poor Mortimer will never see his pet again.
Sometimes Bagheera the Black Panther would come lounging through the jungle to see how his pet was getting on, and would purr with his head against a tree while Mowgli recited the day’s lesson to Baloo.
She said Malcolm told Susan that his dad had given him the farm in his own name and then said, ‘What do you say, darling pet, if we get hitched this fall?
Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about her pet: “Dinah’s our cat.
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