The sense of ' petting ' meaning "to stroke" is first found 1818. Slang sense of "kiss and caress" is from 1920 (implied in petting, in F. Scott Fitzgerald). The common-sense trajectory seems to …

Sep 21, 2017 · What you are describing is "petting." Although, petting is usually done to animals. It may be insulting in some cultures to do it to people. Some asian cultures might find it …

The word "pet" has a few different definitions (my own paraphrase): n: An animal kept for companionship. v: To affectionately caress. My question is, which of these usages originated …

Jan 25, 2015 · Is struck or stricken correct in these sentences? The house was stricken / struck by lightning. The house had been stricken / struck by lightning. He was stricken / struck by grief, …

May 2, 2014 · "In the same vein as" is the most common idiom by a long shot. The other options "in a similar vein to" and "along the same vein" sound a little odd to my ear. I guess you'd be …

Aug 9, 2010 · Actually, to my understading, the form with double l (e.g. "travelling") is more common in British English, while in American English the spelling would be with single l …

May 17, 2023 · Urban Dictionary includes one explanation of "play" : Anything to do with sexual relations: fooling around, making out, oral sex or having intercourse. However, …

Sep 21, 2010 · In British English, one can say "our staff do", because they use plural verbal agreement to emphasize when an entity is made up of a group of people, whether this entity …

Nov 8, 2017 · It is not correct. Although a fluent English speaker would understand what you were trying to say, the correct question is as you acknowledged, "Where were you born?". The only …

Dec 21, 2014 · Replace and substitute do mean the same thing, but in opposite directions. In each case, there is a New and an Old, but the patterns go like this: He replaced Old with New …