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pet-sit

pet-sit is the alternative form of petsit.

Meaning of petsit

Verb

petsit (third-person singular simple present petsits, present participle petsitting, simple past and past participle petsat or (uncommon) petsitted)

  1. To babysit for (take care of) a pet.
    • Sam, Jo, Matthew, and Katie have been hired to petsit Trixie-Belle, a very aristocratic Yorkshire Terrier.1998, Tessa Krailing, Trixie and the Cyber Pet, page 98

Forms of pet-sit

third-person singular presentpet-sits
present participlepet-sitting
past participlepet-sat
pastpet-sat

Questions about pet-sit

What is pet-sit the alternative form of?
Pet-sit is the alternative form of petsit.

Words near pet-sit in the dictionary

  1. pet-free
  2. pet-play
  3. pet-sat
  4. pet-shop
  5. pet-shops
  6. pet-sit
  7. pet-sits
  8. pet-sitted
  9. pet-sitting
  10. Pet.
  11. PETA

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pet-sit (page history and authors); petsit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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