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antipet

adj

Etymology

From anti- + pet.

  1. derived from petta
  2. derived from peata — “pet, tamed animal, spoiled child”
  3. borrowed from pet — “an animal that has been tamed and is kept as a pet; a darling or favourite; a petted or spoiled child”
  4. prefixed as antipet — “anti + pet”

Definitions

  1. Opposed to pets.

    • More extreme antipet people are crazed by paranoia over the possibility of contracting some disease from an animal.
    • Antipet liberationists and some moral vegans are in effect endorsing this categorical position.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for antipet. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA