What is the name meaning of PETT. Phrases containing PETT
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PETT
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Americanized form of French Petitjean.English
Americanized form of French Petitjean.English : variant spelling of Pettyjohn.
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English
English : variant of Pettis.
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English
English : patronymic from Pettey.
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English (Kent)
English (Kent) : variant of Pettis.
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Finnish
Finnish form of Greek Petros, PETTERI means "rock, stone."Â
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English
English : variant of Pettaway.
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English
English : variant of Pettengill.
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English
English : From the possessive or plural form of Middle English pytte, pitte ‘pit’, ‘hollow’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a pit, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example Pett in East Sussex.
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English (mainly Lincolnshire)
English (mainly Lincolnshire) : variant of Pottinger.German : habitational name for someone from any of the places named Petting or Pötting in eastern Bavaria.German (Böttinger) : habitational name for someone from any of four places in Württemberg called Böttingen.
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Tamil
Sail, Petty trade
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Swedish
Norwegian and Swedish form of Greek Petros, PETTER means "rock, stone."Â
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English
English : variant of Petit. The name is also found in Ireland, the main branch there having been established in County Kerry in the 17th century by Sir William Petty.
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English
English : reduced form of Pettaway.
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English (southeast)
English (southeast) : variant of Pitt.French : from a Germanic personal name, Petto or Betto, a short form of any of the various compound names formed with berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’ as the first element.
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English
English : from Middle English pyion, peion ‘young bird’, ‘young pigeon’ (from Old French pijon), a metonymic occupational name for a hunter of wood pigeons or a nickname for a foolish or gullible person, since the birds were easily taken.English : altered form of the nickname Pet(y)jon (see Pettyjohn).Irish (County Monaghan) : local form of McGuigan, from Gaelic Mac Uiginn ‘son of the Viking’.
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Muslim
Petty, Handsome
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English (especially southeastern)
English (especially southeastern) : variant spelling of Petit.
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English
English : from Old French petit ‘little’ + the personal name John, hence a nickname for a little man (or an ironic nickname for a big man; compare the character Little John in the legend of Robin Hood) named John.
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English
English : variant spelling of Pettit.
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Indian
Petty, Handsome
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v. i.
To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way.
v. i.
To act as a pettifogger; to use contemptible tricks.
superl.
Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince.
n.
A petty or powerless king.
n.
The governor of a province in ancient Persia; hence, a petty autocrat despot.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Pettifog
n.
See Pettychaps.
a.
Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair.
n.
A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling.
v. t.
To advocate like a pettifogger; to argue trickily; as, to pettifog a claim.
n.
Pettifoggery.
n.
Inferior or subordinate work; petty business.
superl.
Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated.
n.
The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.
n.
The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles.
n.
A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer.
imp. & p. p.
of Pettifog
n.
A petticoat; the foundation skirt of a draped dress.
adv.
In a petty manner; frivolously.
n.
A sort of petticoat worn by both sexes in Java and the Malay Archipelago.