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pet names

pet names is the plural of pet name.

Meaning of pet name

Noun

pet name (plural pet names)

  1. A nickname, especially a name used by those in love with one another.
    • My boyfriend won't let me call him by his pet name, Pookie, in public.
    Synonyms:
    hypocorism, nickname
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pet, name.

Questions about pet names

What is pet names the plural of?
Pet names is the plural of pet name.

Words near pet names in the dictionary

  1. pet humanization
  2. pet insurance
  3. pet lamp-shade
  4. pet lamp-shades
  5. pet name
  6. pet names
  7. pet peeve
  8. pet peeves
  9. pet phrase
  10. pet phrases
  11. pET plasmid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pet names (page history and authors); pet name (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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