Pets Quotes

Pets refers to an animal kept as a companion. It commonly describes one who is excessively loyal to a superior, any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling, and a fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted, which gives the term a broader and more practical sense than a single short definition would suggest. Depending on context, it can also point to a term of endearment usually applied to women and children, a formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures, and a compilation of signatures built in order to exert moral authority in support of a specific cause, so the category can cover literal uses, related ideas, and more figurative extensions of the same core meaning. Taken together, these meanings present Pets as a flexible theme rather than a narrowly technical label, covering the central idea people usually mean when they use the word while still leaving room for closely related senses that appear in real language. Additional shades of meaning include a formal written request for judicial action, a prayer; a supplication; an entreaty, to stroke or fondle (an animal), to stroke or fondle (another person) amorously, and of two or more people, to stroke and fondle one another amorously, which reinforce how the category can stretch across adjacent but still recognizable uses of the same term.

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Jeff Valdez

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